I just returned from visiting my Mom and Dad for a couple of weeks, and since my father has a lot of health problems now, part of the reason for the visit was simply to be a help around the house . So while I was enjoying their company, I also ran errands, shopped for groceries, […]
“The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.” That proclamation of comfort and assurance from Psalm 23 is probably the most familiar verse of scripture from any of the 150 Psalms. Much less quoted are the Psalms of lament that cry out … “How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long […]
Atlanta is currently bustling with business growth and the new construction that usually accompanies. Seems like just about everywhere you look, there’s a building project underway, and since ‘a rising tide floats all ships’, that’s the case in the suburbs as well. For example, about a month ago, Clif and I were traveling one of […]
My youngest daughter turned 17 this week. Admittedly we may have gone a little over the top by stuffing her room with 650 balloons for a surprise welcome home, but after the silliness and laughs passed, we eventually got down to the ‘serious’ business of opening her presents. Surprisingly, it turned out that her favorite […]
There are days that just seem hard to put one foot in front of the other. Like today… the end of the third stanza of the Migraine Waltz. Thankfully the drumbeat of this particular version isn’t as bad as some that roll over me with ferocity. But still the ‘music’ plays with a persistent drone […]
My oldest son, Ryan, just entered his second month of his overseas internship in Italy, apprenticing under three highly skilled master blacksmiths. He spent his first month in a small town south of Bologna with a renowned iron-working artist. Before finishing his Italian adventure in Rome next month, he’ll be staying a couple more weeks […]
