Ode to the Mist

November 30, 2012

          For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. ~James 4:14b (ESV) A mist. Prone to vanish. A little time. Through the July sunshine I sensed the vanishing mist. As I crouched over the motionless and crushed body of my wife, I wrestled with the sunshine that seemed at […]

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Our Father…

November 16, 2012

“Our Father in heaven hallowed be your name.”  Matthew 6:9 I’m really grateful, Father, that you are in heaven.  I’m thankful that you can rise above the fray and the chaos and the hatred and the conflict and the decay and the abuse and the injustice – not from a sense of ignorance or dispassion, […]

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Now What?

November 9, 2012

As the evening waned and candidates delivered their respective celebration or concession speeches, a question began to surface: Now what? For those who saw their candidates of choice pronounced as winners, the question reverberates from a position of power.  Now what?  In such situations, we’re reminded that Godliness demands what democracy may not.  You and […]

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Today and Tuesday

November 2, 2012

“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that […]

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“I Never Failed a Drug Test!”

October 26, 2012

What a mess; and what a spotlight into the human soul. I’m quite sure that I could trace my early entry into road cycling to the powerful story and compelling persona of Lance Armstrong.  His incredible cycling success was amplified by his recovery from cancer.  Both produced a platform for athletics and charity.  Lance Armstrong […]

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“Then our mouth was filled…”

October 19, 2012

Mary and I sat side by side on an airplane for the first time in three months.  Mary’s rehabilitation from a cycling accident on July 10 forced a reduced pace that subsided only slightly last week on a short journey to the west coast. Sitting side by side we talked and reflected and marveled and […]

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Right Next to the Gates

October 8, 2012

In the last two weeks our garage has become a storage facility for durable medical supplies.  Various items that had facilitated mobility, comfort, strength and safety are now expendable. Each of these supplies adequately served its purpose for the time and need required, but now, twelve weeks removed from the serious cycling accident that Mary […]

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September 21, 2012

The “At Sign”. Shift 2. This symbol was added to most keyboards in the early 1900s and was primarily focused on financial applications. 7 widgets @ $2 produces a total sale of $14. For decades the At Sign languished in near oblivion. Most often a “fat-finger” mistake for an exclamation point. The neighborhood was full […]

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“My Peace”

September 14, 2012

We’ve had the incredible privilege to host lots of visitors over the past several weeks as we engage with friends and family who want to encourage, pray with and serve Mary and me during this time of recovery from Mary’s cycling accident. I had no idea nine weeks ago what the network of hope as […]

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When The Smoke Cleared

September 7, 2012

It’s been several weeks that the view of the mountains has been obscured. In fact, we had family come to town to help us as Mary continues to recover from her accident, and the best we could offer in the way of views, were a few masked silhouettes. The cause was a curtain of haze […]

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