Year end, 2020
Thanks to all of you who have been following this blog. It was born in July as an experiment to address several felt needs: To…
Listen, and speak.
"If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the…
“Here, I made this.”
artifact noun 1. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest: gold and silver artifacts. I have an antique suitcase filled with old letters from…
Whatever you want
We stood in front of the menu at Dairy Queen. Grandpa waved his hand at all of it and said, "Get whatever you want!" My…
Look and listen
I have a close friend who is mostly deaf. I've learned so much from him. He's given me a glimpse of how sound-dependent I am.…
Immanuel
My favorite name for God. Matthew 1:23 says, “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which…
No room?
We have four children. When our older children were born, we were living in Dallas just minutes from the hospital. With our younger kids, we…
Nativity dragon
There's a dragon in the Nativity Story. We don't put one in the cozy little Nativity sets that we display during Advent--because we don't want…
Belligerent bells
One of my favorite Christmas songs is "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." It's based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Christmas Bells." I love…
Always recruiting
If you're a leader, you're always recruiting. Perhaps not in the formal sense where you're literally trying to recruit folks to fill positions, but you're…