This picture was taken from a little footbridge on the northeast shore of Shear Lake on the property of Camp Barakel where I rest and reflect and pray as often as I can. Some day I will tell you the time and place God released my soul from seeing ministry as an unrelenting burden. It […]
Hope for a Dying World
Grabbed a plate of hash browns and some coffee today in a local coffee shop…. This week you can feel something different in the air. Spring comes slowly and deliberately to Michigan. But it comes. The redbuds won’t open and the dogwoods won’t blossom, the flowering pear won’t flower until mid-May but still, the days […]
Daffodils in the Corner of the Parking Lot
You only are the maker of all things near and far. You paint the wayside flower, you light the evening star. The wind and waves obey you, by you the birds are fed; much more to us, your children, you give our daily bread. -Matthias Claudius Yesterday was Palm Sunday and the first day of […]
Icy, Cold, Darkness
It’s dark and cold and there is a cold, sleety, slush falling from the sky at an angle in the wind as I push the dumpster to the curb this morning. Somewhere there is a resilient little bird out there in the icy, cold, darkness… singing… Give me that spirit today, Lord.
Good Morning, Autumn
It’s the first day of fall. Soon the furnace will kick on. Men and beasts who can will flee away to warmer places. Biting wind and numbing cold, ice and sleet and snow will turn a simple commute to work into a struggle for our very survival. After a brief cheery holiday season we will […]
VanCleve School-October 1979
I have in my mind and moment in time. I am a school custodian. It is my first year of marriage, specifically, my second month of marriage. We married in early September 1979. It must be an autumn evening in October now. I am the evening custodian at VanCleve Elementary School in Troy, Ohio. Soon […]