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War on weeds
One of the fun experiences I had this summer was a lovely Saturday morning spent visiting six beautiful private gardens, all part of our town’s garden club “tour”. From my vantage point, every garden on this tour was amazing. These gardens looked their best – the flowers well-placed, buoyant and colorful, the mulch perfectly applied,…
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Sent Sparrows
Setting: an ordinary day at work, in a basement office at The Salvation Army, in a somewhat drab brick building on a busy corner in Hartford CT. In this office, there are two windows that are level with the ground, since I work in the “garden level” (AKA basement) of the building. I hear noise…
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The fear of finishing
I consider myself an average runner. Not a star runner by any means, but a middle of the road, ten minute miler who can comfortably finish a 5K in about 30 minutes, give or take a few seconds on either side. I started running later in life, in college. So, the first time I entered…
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Hidden
There used to be “something special” about taking a picture, back in the dark ages before the digital revolution. With only 24 pictures available on a roll of film, that was purchased, which had to “get developed,” complete with chemicals, a darkroom, and something called negatives, the act of taking a picture required a bit of planning…
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A lamb’s place
I love analogies, especially biblical ones, because they give me a picture that sticks with me. I have found that the Bible is full of analogies – word pictures – from old testament to new, and, more than just flowery poetry, they communicate deeply, to the heart. Sometimes biblical analogies and the events of life…
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Five months later
I didn’t know I would leave this blog for five months. But, it makes sense, as I have been busy navigating a new job. Anyone who knows corporate America needs no other explanation. Corporate life demands focus and intensity, and leaves little room for creativity. It offers money but not spiritual riches, so I’m comfortable,…
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What about…tomorrow?
“The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.” – C.S. Lewis…
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All that I have commanded you
The room was very quiet when the guest speaker, Dr. Chris Mitchell from Wheaton College, started to unpack what the Great Commission is about. Matthew, in verse 20, wrote that Jesus told his disciples to teach the nations to “observe all that I have commanded you.” It is ironic that Dr. Mitchell was “preaching to…
Consider the Lilies 