A friendly stranger agreed to snap a photo of us at the top of Arch Rock on our Silver Anniversary.
Bair Lake Bible Camp
Lois and I are celebrating twenty-five years of marriage on Wednesday. We are off on a little get-away tomorrow, Lord willing. We are back from a weekend at Bair Lake Bible Camp. It was a family camp and the group was very open and receptive. We made new friends and enjoyed beautiful weather. I had […]
Good Intentions and Good Sense
Once the older boys and I spent some time doing some odd jobs for a widow. She asked me to get gravel to create bases for some large concrete yard statuary.
Rejection
A wise man recently told me the secret to overcoming feelings of rejection. He said something like this: “Always know that you have something valuable to give and you will not feel rejected. If you had a stack of one hundred dollar bills to give away you would not care if someone did not want […]
Taste and See
We live in downtown Flint, Michigan. It’s really not the kind of place where folks chat over the backyard fence and swap garden produce and gossip. On the street in downtown Flint, people don’t usually speak to you until you speak to them. Sometimes they don’t speak to you even when you do speak to […]
Thinking and Feeling
Sometimes I don’t think. I always feel but sometimes I just don’t think. It is common for me to drive right past the entrance to a restaurant two or three times before it dawns on me what I am doing. I sort of “feel” my way through life and forget to think.