300 words a day

I went for a long walk. Not because of needing to cool off from an angry moment, or needing to get somewhere because the car broke. I walked just to get a long walk. As I was getting near the end, I moved from the paved trail to cut across the campus. I realized that, […]

The other day, our neighbor down the street was helping our neighbor next door shred branches that had fallen in the wind. And they were cutting up some other brush. Even suburban houses have seeds that turn into unwanted trees, and old trees that shed branches in the wind.  Ben’s three. Ben likes to help. […]

God- We want someone to say, “Come.” To invite us in as if we are expected and wanted and welcome. After a long journey, after a hard night’s work, after a fight, after a big, complicated celebration, we want to be welcomed. We are thirsty from the desert of surgery and chemo, the desert of […]

For more than two decades, Nancy (my wife) has worried about the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir. We can use words other than worry, of course. Cared about. Cared for. Thought about most of the time. And not just the choir. Mostly the singers. And their families. She started as a volunteer and quickly became part […]

On the night before he was betrayed, Jesus was talking about leaving the disciples, about how bad they were feeling that he was going to the father. And he comforts them by saying, you are not alone. You will go through hard times. You will not be alone. You will face the persecution I’ve talked […]