Recipient, Apprentice, and Messenger of Grace
This morning I set out on an adventure.
Along with a couple of men that have, as much as anyone I have ever known, demonstrated what it means to look after someone, I’m taking Big Jim for his last ride.
Big Jim…what a mess…what a headache…what a character…what a learning lab of grace.
Continue reading Big Jim’s Last RideThere was a time when the word “change” made me reach into my pocket. Now it makes me hold on to my hat.
I’ve written about the craziness of the season of family life that we are in. Today is another one of those days of change amidst a season of change.
Our world-changers are returning today from almost a year spent in Honduras. That’s exciting…and difficult. But God is continuing to grow them and teach them and use them for His glory.
My one and only SweetPea is about to move from undergrad to grad school. It’s exciting, except for the loading stuff in a trailer and hauling it around part. But I’m dad and it’s what I do.
My Army man is in the process of being transformed from a boy to a soldier in one of the most intense seasons of change he will likely ever experience. All I can do is pray hard and write letters…both of which I am diligently doing.
I’ve had another anniversary and another birthday this month. I’ve been wrestling with the richness and majesty of our great salvation in my current theology class. I am in the process of being stretched in my ministry life in ways that I have never yet experienced.
Change is the one absolute constant condition in life right now. Continue reading Ch-ch-ch-changes…
I always find it humorous when the GPS navigation device or app says, “recalculating.”
Unless I’m driving…then I don’t like it much at all. It’s like this smug little person in a machine is saying, “Hold on a minute while I figure out how to get you out of this mess.”
But what happens when we get so far off course that our GPS doesn’t even know where we are? Or maybe we just don’t have a very good connection with the satellite. What do we do then?
