Daily observations about following Jesus
Saturday morning, I turned the wrong way. My back immediately sent pain into that part of my brain that overrides everything else. Movement in any direction caused more pain. I did several stretches. My wife administered pain creme and brought out a heating pad. There was little change… simply putting on shoes was something that […]
Read More…(I wrote this a decade ago. I think it is still of value for reflection.) I heard this today: “Forming people in Christ as a slow work, so it can’t be hurried; it is an urgent work, so it can’t be delayed.” Eugene Peterson said it. He’s the pastor and teacher who “wrote” The Message. […]
Read More…I asked Nancy for a word to write about. “Sleep,” she said. And laughed. When I looked at her a few minutes later, she was as good as her word. Asleep on the sofa after a long day and a good meal brought to us by thoughtful friends. Which gives me a good story, but […]
Read More…Nancy has a non-displaced fracture of the tibia plateau. It means that there’s about an inch-long crack in the long lower leg bone, right behind the kneecap. It means that she can’t put weight on her left leg for about 6 weeks. It means that almost everything that she could do without thinking one minute, […]
Read More…God. We know that we are not like each other. We look different, we do different things, we feel different feelings. We confess that often, we wish you had made us like someone else. We confess that often, we wish you had made other people like us. And we acknowledge that we just wish that […]
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