I came walking into the office a couple days ago with these two items in my hands. I sorta don’t […]
Minute of Grace
Welcome to today and a minute of Grace! We walk through life sometimes together, sometimes alone, and always in the presence of the Holy, the one I call God. Check back every Wednesday evening for your next Minute of Grace.
Learning from our history
Our new United Methodist Calendar and Workbooks came in a couple weeks ago. It’s always the beginning of October when […]
Disagreement without toxicity
It was shared in our staff meeting yesterday that companies across the United States are dealing with more toxicity in the workplace environment than ever before because of divisive conversations happening. These are not primarily conversations around work-related issues and disagreement around how things are or are not being done. Rather they are non-work-related conversations relating to politics. The result of the increasing toxicity in these environments are causing companies to lose employees, efficient work time, and finally having a negative effect on the bottom-line to an estimated point of $223 billion.
Living Through the Changes
What are the moments over your years that have made life-changing differences? A crossroads the required a choice that once […]
Off-Course
“Don’t you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then have hope, […]
Remembering
I am most aware today, that every loss we experience brings back every loss we have ever experienced. We hold […]
5-Year Plan
You know the question. If you’ve ever been in an interview, I bet it’s been asked. Maybe you were the […]
Being Human: Contrasts and Contradictions
Optimist or pessimist? Glass half-empty, glass half-full, or it depends on what’s in the glass?!? ~snort~ Leap out of bed […]
The Hard Way
Have you ever had to learn things the hard way? Someone who is nice and perhaps a bit older and […]
Old School
This may be shocking and contain a bit of disillusionment, but on many things in life, I’m old school. I’m […]
The Road Less Traveled
I was out for a run one morning last week headed up a dead-end road I like because it is […]
Goats and Votes
What does every summer need?!? I finally found out in this, my 57th summer on this earth, GOAT YOGA!!! Remember […]
Dreams
What are the dreams that offer us sustenance and hope? There are times I wake up and have a most […]
One Foot in Front of the Other
Last Thursday morning I was on my way to one of the home meetings with the pastor we are […]
God’s Love Will Prevail
I don’t spend much time or particular awareness to the evil powers of this world. It seems to me a […]
Summer Refreshments
A friend of mine’s niece and nephew recently retired to Durango, Colorado. I asked her how they were liking it, […]
A Strong Foundation
“There’s a counterintuitive humility that comes when we are treated with such regard at the table. Rather than being inflated […]
And Many More
The skies were clear, the roads were busy, and there were wonderful highway patrol folks every whipstitch along the way […]
Wisdom
Is it possible that the innate wisdom I believe we all have within us is set free once we realize […]
Balancing our control in God’s sacred world: cats, ticks, doctors, and Dairy Queen
A very nice cat-loving member of Grace let me know that yesterday was national hug your cat day. Clearly someone […]
Storms
Sometimes I work after hours at the church because the interruptions are fewer; sometimes because I’ve been talking so much […]
We Are (Still) Grace
They were from Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, North Carolina, Washington D.C., and Kansas (that was me). We were male and […]
Cats, Dogs, and Bugs
Some days you’re the windshield, some days you’re the bug. Isn’t that from a country western song? So Wednesday last […]
My Safari
It was the first week of December and I was in South Africa. It could have been a lifetime ago […]