300 words a day

God. We think we talk to you all the time. We ask you for protection for family in the path of the hurricane. We ask you to keep our loved one from dying in the emergency room. We ask you for jobs and health and money and relief. Then we talk about you showing up.Or […]

Forty years ago this summer, Nancy and I moved from Austin, Texas, to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and I started teaching “Intro to Public Speaking” at Fort Wayne Bible College.  I had finished my Ph.D. coursework, and had passed my qualifying exams, and was supposed to be figuring out a research question for my dissertation. It […]

Rich Dixon wants us to think about the actual task. +++ Do you ever read one of Jon’s posts and find you can’t stop thinking about it? I’m guessing we all identified to some extent with his comments last week about Hallmark Families. But as I cranked my bike the last few days, I found […]

God. We need your rest. Give us your peace. Amen. +++ My friend Bill said Sunday night that we always read the 23rd Psalm, but that we don’t pay attention to the 22nd or the 24th. I think it came from a sermon he’d heard. I smiled and nodded and racked my brain to remember […]

God. We hear Jeremiah’s words to you, and they could be our words. You spoke to him. You said, “I know you.” You said, “speak for me.” Jeremiah said, “I don’t know how to speak. I am too young.” You speak to us and we say, “I’m too young.  I’m too old. I’m too uncertain. […]