For years I have studied and read about the art and skill of fishing for trout with dry flies. I have read beautiful artful books on the subject. Some of the best outdoor writing ever put on paper is about the ancient art of fishing with flies.
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Ken’s Stories
Ken Pierpont is a small-town pastor at heart, who loves people. He loves his wife, he loves his children, he loves God and he loves life. This love spills over into each of his stories. Everywhere he looks he sees extraordinary truths about God demonstrated in ordinary people and common places. He is the father of eight children and he has been a rural and small-town pastor for nearly twenty-five years starting the summer after his junior year in high school when he was only seventeen years old.
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November 1, 2004
As usual for the first of November in this part of the world the wind has stripped bare the last of the leaves from all but the oaks. The rest of the leaves blew out of the trees like colorful snow. Kendall Krause, a faithful Stonebridge subscriber had a birthday yesterday. He is on staff here. His wife Penny made him apple pie. We visited them after church last night and helped them eat it. It was good enough to make moderation difficult.
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Cabbage Heads
A few years ago I worked with a pair of brothers in Ohio named Denny and Glenn Allen. They were great guys, farm boys. Best of the best. Just your fine, salt-of-the-earth types. They were talented men just full of horse sense like farm boys tend to be and they were my friends. Both of them made major contributions to my life. I hope I have to theirs too although it’s been about eight years since we worked together.
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Elmer and Esther Brandon
Grace and Mercy are such attractive qualities when you experience them first hand. I’m glad I don’t have to tell you all the foolish and sinful things I have done in my lifetime. I will say they are many and dark and they make the message of the cross very sweet to me.
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Zeal… and Planning
Sometimes zeal can get you into trouble. I once organized a project to replace the roof on the home of our beloved visitation pastor, Clyde Afman. I knew the skilled men would need to be there to build the new roof. I recruited young men and older boys to do the work of tearing off the old roof.
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