01.28.2025 – Comfort and Pain – 6 Comments on What Grief Feels Like What Grief Feels Like I lost my dad five years ago. I’ve been losing my mom to dementia for even longer. Earlier this month, I lost my …
01.21.2025 – Missions – 4 Comments on Meeting Heidi Baker Meeting Heidi Baker For some people, Heidi Baker is controversial. But to me and others, she’s a hero. Along with her husband, Rollan…
01.17.2025 – A broken world Too Busy to Care About Maria? John Hearn shared this story about Maria a number of years ago. I share it with you in hopes that it will con…
01.14.2025 – My Life Life Lessons Dogs Can Teach Us Asha died last week. She was my sidekick for 15 years. She was great with the grandbabies. She probably thought s…
01.07.2025 – Community and Covenant Here’s Why We Need to Be Recognized After Asha’s death and Hunter’s funeral last night, I was thinking about why losing someone you love can be so …
The God of the trash heap Poverty I brought my running shoes to Mexico. Behind Bob Waag’s house is a giant trash heap – all the garbage of Matamoros piled into a huge mountain. It sits in a w…
The cost of comfort Comfort and Pain We’re all faced with a lot of temptations to cheat in our lives. Don’t cheat on your spouse, don’t cheat on your business partner and don’t cheat on your t…
Rest of the story: St. Francis lives down the street from me Listening prayer Robert Wetherford is 78 years old and works harder chopping wood than most men half his age. This morning I was jogging by his wood-splitting operation f…
