My children’s mother, Kandi, and I were blessed by daughter, Jennifer, into our lives in 1968. Then, by son, Mark, in 1970. How we loved and enjoyed them. I have no words to convey the beautiful mystery of them around and within us. By way of Jennifer and Mark I learned again for the firstContinue reading “Reading to children – the ritual renewed”
Category Archives: patience
Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans
Some of you know that I am a graduate of St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, MO. That is where I went in the summer of 1972 with their mother, Kandi, when my oldest children, Jennifer and Mark, were very small. Jennifer was maybe 3 and Mark was maybe 1. Another person,Continue reading “Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans”
What does it mean for us to love?
On May 22, 2016, Trinity Sunday in our liturgical year, I was installed as the pastor and teacher at Trinity Church United Church of Christ in Northport, Michigan. You can watch an eight minute video that tells about Trinity and its heritage as well as breathes life into the service of Installation, which was a timeContinue reading “What does it mean for us to love?”
“a humble partner with”
Today Northern Michigan’s Magazine “Traverse” arrived at our PO Box. It is a very cool (no pun intended) journal. Today’s issue includes articles titled “I Come in Praise of Snow,” “Breathtaking Winter,” and “Witness to the Land: 80 years on a Leelanau Farm.” In “Witness to the Land” I encountered the story of a manContinue reading ““a humble partner with””
takes about a hundred seconds
The new theme for our blog (watermark) will (depending on your internet speed) take a minimum of 60 seconds to download if you scroll down over each picture. . . some are mine (some are other’s) breathe easy . . . the pictures are good . . . Each one (if scrolled over and clicked on) willContinue reading “takes about a hundred seconds”
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