As I sit down to write this month’s article, there is much swirling around in my brain. Have you everseen that meme that says, “My brain is like an internet browser: 12 tabs are open, 5 are not responding,there’s a GIF playing on an endless loop and where is that annoying music coming from?” So...
I visited my brother Mark’s family homestead in the Colorado mountains last month – my first visit since wildfires ravaged hundreds of thousands of acres surrounding his cabin last fall. The miraculous seedlings and sprouts of the first spring after fire have already grown deep roots and begun to flower. The tips of some tall...
As I sat down to write this month’s article, I was once again reminded just how quickly this year has flown by. It is already August! Then I quickly realized, as I looked at my calendar, that school begins in just a few short weeks for all kids and college students. As educators, parents, and...
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.– Proverbs 20:29 Dear Sisters and Brothers, As my family has been preparing for our reunion vacation next week on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan,my brother Brock (a Johns Hopkins Fellow in Geriatric Medicine) sent everyone some...
This past week I had the opportunity to interview with the Central Christian ChurchScholarship Committee and I must admit that I was a wee-bit nervous. I know that they all knowme, but I was not sure what questions might be asked of me so, naturally I was a bit apprehensiveas I signed into the Zoom...
The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. And he said to them,“Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, andthey had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a desolate place...
