Our A/C is broken. And with the 90-degree heat and humidity of the past few days, our home has become stuffy and unbearable to sleep in. I hate to say that, because it’s like we’ve grown so used to just one comfortable temperature that we can’t stand a little heat? But it is what it… Continue reading welcome home

Do you ever just stop and think about how MASSIVE the world is? How many billions of people have so many billions of problems and dramas and blessings and issues and joys and fears? How does God keep it all straight? It’s like sometimes I think I’m the only one He follows around all day…hearing… Continue reading colossal

It’s not easy being less rich…Check out this article I read today in the New York Times. What a scary place to be when all of your peace of mind, your security, your self-image and self-confidence, the love and devotion of your spouse, and the acceptance of your friends is based on the numbers typed… Continue reading Wealth is relative…

A CNN commentator wrote a column about immigrants and illegal workers. There is more than meets the eye to most political debates: Commentary: Slavery Alive and Well in the U.S. “After all, compassion without common sense may feel good but it doesn’t achieve anything. If you need proof then go out and give $1,000 to… Continue reading THINK, people.

So when you hear about things like child labor and corporate crimes and just the deterioration of the world in general, do you get this nagging feeling that you want to help but don’t know how? Well. I have always had a guilty conscience. So I have had that feeling. I don’t know where it… Continue reading another (big) way to make a difference

Yesterday, our home was filled to the brim with just plain fun. It feels like it has been all week. At house church on Thursday, after a short time of worship and sharing, the group decided to have a fun night just being together. So we all gathered around our dining room table, all ten… Continue reading every luminous moment

Do you wanna hear something funny? I mean. Funny. We’re talking hilarious. Boss-man (dad) is signing us up for a golf scramble in July with the superintendent of a school we do business with. As in…my score will count. I have barely touched a golf club since I was 12. And it was miniature golf.… Continue reading Me? Golf?

I’m tired of myself. I mean, I love myself. I think I’m great…and I think more people should think that about themselves. But I think for awhile, this blog has drifted casually between theological and spiritual tendencies and then to what I did over the weekend. As if many people care that I got a… Continue reading have life. and have it abundantly.

Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. You’ll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesman fight because they are a part… Continue reading quote

Cody thrillin’ the kids with his magic tracks….Paul posin’ with his ladies emily and vicki last weekend for drinks at Friday’s… Mother’s Day cookout at big brother Corey’s house (don’t my brothers look intelligent??) This is all Dad could find in Corey’s freezer…and this is his new puppy. Fritz. Not called Fritz the Ditz for… Continue reading photo update