Thy Grace is Sufficient

Up The Hill A couple of weeks ago, Younger Daughter and I took a short car trip up a hill.  No big deal, but farther and deeper than I thou...

Recently, and for the first time, I heard a friend speak the Latin words Deus semper minor . The literal translation of this is "God ...

Do you ever wonder why you were put on this earth? Do you ever find yourself pondering deeply profound questions of life while driving in th...

This next week, our house will be just a bit more quiet, because my wife will be gone. We will be a bit (ok, a LOT) more disorganized aroun...

Last weekend was graduation time for the Older Daughter. These June endings, they always surprise me, and leave me with a rainbow of emotion...

Cardinal John Henry Newman , said this: "Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, where ever I am. I can never be thrown away. If I am ...

Two events happened recently. One was 350 miles above Earth. The other was very much on the ground, in the middle of America. One was gra...

I had just come out of a late afternoon meeting. Racing Forward My mind had been engrossed in my work for the past several hours, and the ea...

It's Lent, and so, a season to reflect on the end of Jesus' life. They were sitting around a fire. Sort of like a campfire. It was...

This past weekend, Nancy & I ditched civilization and went here. Yosemite. We were here to celebrate 20 years of marriage, marked offi...

Lately, there are these ideas drifting in and out of my head. These thoughts have been there now for some time, wandering in and out of my d...

Today something remarkable dawned upon me. More than 24 years ago this summer, I spent time in Eastern Europe , on a mission to serve the pe...

Last Saturday night, in the desert, under the stars, with 40,000 young people, and a handful of us old dudes. Lots of funny cigarette smo...