The older I get the more of a ‘Calvinist’ I become—the more grateful for the sovereign grace of God. As my energy and idealism mellow with age, I look back at the first fifty years and see a trail of grace I may have once mistaken for the product of my energies. All the really […]
It’s here again, the advent season. Our Christmas boxes came out of hiding this morning, whether I was ready or not to decorate. It’s time. Truth is I wasn’t ready. The pre-season-clutter-removal hadn’t happened over the weekend and now geometry and physics were demanding a tutor’s attention…and my face hurt with an untimely sinus […]
Lest we forget…The record is history. They died, laying down their lives to preserve our freedom. And this day, on the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year of our century at the 11th minute of the 11th hour, (11:11 on 11/11/11) we pause to remember… There was an infinitely greater […]
I guess I did not anticipate the upheaval this trip would bring to my soul—There was grace for the going, grace for the doing and the being there (though not without some fear and trembling). There were ‘travelling mercies’–companions along the way to shorten the journey with conversation, and empty seats when silence was preferable, […]
Do you remember that song Julie Andrews sings in The Sound of Music? She can’t believe her good fortune in being loved by the wonderful ‘Captain’ so as they stand in a leafy arbor one evening she sings this sweet romantic song with him: Perhaps I had a wicked childhoodPerhaps I had a miserable youthBut […]