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True celebrity
Your comments about Rick and Kay’s interview are still resonating. I’m thinking of the countless people who struggle with mental illness and how they must have been encouraged by what they saw. At the risk of overstating it, I want … Continue reading
Raw and real
“I never questioned my faith in God; I questioned God’s plan,” Rick Warren last night on CNN. In case you somehow missed it, Rick and Kay Warren were on camera last night in a very candid interview with Piers Morgan … Continue reading
Grace card: Don’t go home without it.
Any relationship is going to require a Grace Card. That’s because we are destined to fail each other over and over again. We will fail because we are fallible, and we will fail without even trying, because our expectations are … Continue reading
Surprised by joy
Praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. (Psalms 150:5-6) My older son loves to play the drums. He’s played in a number of bands and contributed in a … Continue reading
Life is short
Marti dared me to write about this — what she sees as a sort of non-evangelical list of axioms she hung on a plaque in the kitchen as her mantra on life — a celebration of normal human emotions that … Continue reading
Mustard seed faith
Let’s try a little mountain-moving today. In writing down my phone number quickly in a recent memo, I put down the first two digits of a phone number I haven’t used for years. Ever wonder where stuff like that comes … Continue reading
…and you think you’ve got problems?
Someone sent me an article yesterday titled, “…And You Think You Have Problems?” I’m not sure why she sent it — it came with a note, “found this while going through some papers” — maybe it was because I wrote … Continue reading
What else is life for?
Chandler had a birthday yesterday and the present I got was when he decided he wanted to share with me a text he had gotten from the youth director at our local church after attending summer camp. In it he … Continue reading
Don’t be a sitting corbina
I identified Chandler’s fish (see Friday’s Catch). It’s called a California corbina and it is prevalent in the shallow surf. It’s a bottom feeder and hard to catch with a line and hook because it doesn’t really “strike,” it munches. … Continue reading
Chandler’s Catch
Chandler speared his first fish last night. He got a spear pole and goggles for his pre-birthday (the real thing is on Monday) and has been living this moment in his mind for weeks. So when he brought it home, … Continue reading
John Fischer The Catch 