Starting Is The Hardest Part

Start. Just start. That is the hardest part for me. Maybe it’s inertia. Overcoming forces which have combined to prevent my action. Maybe it’s something more like a fear of failure. Whatever it is, I often struggle to start. So, I’ve been a bit surprised by my recent starting. I’m exercising. Walking/running. Lifting weights. Riding […]

Celebrating The Harvest

If I was stranded on a deserted island and I could only celebrate one holiday, I think it would be Thanksgiving. Not that I have anything against any other holiday, but Thanksgiving in my experience is just about the clearest picture I have of what I imagine Heaven to be like. Family Food Gratitude Prayer […]

Eclipse 2017: What I Learned About Church

The Eclipse of 2017. I know years from now this is how we’ll think about our recent solar eclipse. Like other historical and community-wide events we’ll tell the stories of where we were and what we did. We’ll remember the people we were with and we may even recall the conversations that preceded and followed […]