Today I rose early and after a few necessary tasks I made my way to a large Christian school and spoke in chapel. The students, faculty and parents present were attentive—a great audience. I walked away feeling like I had done some good. After lunch I had some other duties and a committee meeting. After […]
God of the Fallen Sparrow
He was a country preacher and a farmer. Early one Saturday morning he was milking his cow. His faith was at low ebb. Times were tough and things were thin and he was feeling low. Bills were due and things around the farm were in need of repair. He sat milking his cow and wondering […]
Weather is a Writer’s Friend
Jan Karon says that weather is a writer’s friend. Here is how she put it: “I find weather one of the most useful tools ever made available to an author, not to mention poets, whose work absolutely thrives on it. The Mitford novels are full of weather, and would be intolerably weak tea without it.” […]
Storytelling Adventures
The first inclination of my life calling was my childhood eagerness to participate in “Show and Tell.” Saturday, after watching our grandbuddie Kyle (K2) Pierpont play basketball in Howell, I drove up the state through Flint, Saginaw, Zilwaukee, Bay City and Pinconning on Interstate 75 and then followed 23 tracing Lake Huron’s great Saginaw Bay […]
I Might Not Live to Be An Old Man
My brother-in-law Bob Dunbar was a generous man. When he suddenly died the first week of February hundreds and hundreds of people gathered to mourn his passing and celebrate his life. Everyone spoke of his serving, his listening, and his generosity. Bob was a giver. He never let me pay for coffee or lunch. When […]
Patches of Godlight
“We — or at least I — shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest. At best, our faith and reason will tell us that He is adorable, but we shall not have found Him so, not have ‘tasted and […]
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