https://kenpierpont.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/KPSP-CARSICKNESS-FORGOTTEN-FINAL-5914-12.16-AM.mp3 A few years ago a family in our church lost their much-loved son to untimely death. To comfort them I created a story to help them see the difficulties of his life are now forever forgotten. I hope you enjoy the story.
Awaiting the Date
Here is a classic re-posted from 2001 Working in my study one summer afternoon I found myself struggling to concentrate. At the time my charge was a small country church near a cemetery bordered in back by a stream. I thought a walk would do me some good and refresh my powers of concentration. Picking […]
A Difficult Christmas
Here is a classic re-post from eleven years ago. The decorations around the Inn this year are beautiful. A fire burns in the huge fireplace in the lobby. We are warm, happy and secure. But I remember a difficult Christmas when we had no tree or decorations. The children were complaining about it so I […]
Where Have You Been All My Life?
A Classic Re-post from 2001 Saturday we spent the day on the West Coast of our beloved peninsula enjoying the sandy beach of our own freshwater inland ocean-Lake Michigan. Driving into the parking lot I noticed some of the cars were from out of state. Others were enjoying our Michigan sand and water. Sometimes I […]
When the Lights Come Down
Here is a classic re-post to help you adjust to the post-Christmas season. Let’s start with this wonderful song that captures all that I am trying to say: My son Chuck is now sixteen years old. He’s six feet tall and he’s starting to get muscles. The other night he was doing his evening push-ups. […]
I’m Special (Christmas)
Gideon is a little fellow in my church who is afflicted with Downs Syndrome. The first time I met him I reached out to shake his hand and he looked a little frightened or confused. He hid his face in his mother’s lap. Eventually he got used to me and within a few weeks he […]