Six Hours
Six hours – this is what we discovered is the time zone difference between Hawaii and Detroit. Since they request you get to the airport five hours before takeoff, our son Matt dropped us off at Metro at about 5:00 a.m. for our 7:00 a.m. flight. We…
Struggles
Luke tells us an interesting story in Acts 14: “Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and…
God at Work
She turned 80 a month or so ago. She has no living relatives. She was struck with polio at age 6 but was able to work for the FBI for over 40 years. She now suffers from restricted lung disease. She was admitted into the hospital earlier this week –…
Bo
I will call him “Bo”, though that is not really his name (and, yes, I do remember his real name. I just think it’s best if I do not use it). I was taking my usual morning walk a week ago today. Our HOA had put little flags in everyone’s yard for the…
Deeper and Longer
It is very easy in our faith life to become “surface-surfers” and nothing more. Life is busy. There are many distractions. And, more often than not, going beyond simply is not a priority we consider.
Rebooting
I am sorry about last week. I was out of town without my laptop, taking a complete break. In case you are interested, we had a great eight-day getaway – traveling through Sarnia to Niagara Falls, then to Buffalo to visit with the Hartke’s, and on to…
No Trading
I wanted to talk about the trade deadline today, and by that I don’t really mean how the Detroit Tigers traded Skubal and Mize, although I am satisfied with the return received (I was hoping Mize would remain a Tiger – but had forgotten that Boros was…
GOLDEN
I should have known when my wedding proposal did not go anything close to what I had planned. A year later I had my second chance to learn when our plan for call day fizzled. It may be that we did learn – finally – five years into our marriage as we…
Fifteen Minutes
For the flowers in our yard this summer we opted to try synthetic ones instead of the live varieties. Our primary reasoning was around the fact that we anticipated being away from our condo more than usual this summer which would bring more…
Reflections II
We returned home Monday from two-plus weeks of vacationing with about the best weather ever. We were on the dock and in the water every day except one. About the only story worth telling comes from one of my morning walks. I was about…