What’s your story?

This question has popped up twice in my life in the same week so I wrote an answer and sent it to the recently found long-lost friend who’d asked. Today, I got the story below as a forwarded email. I couldn’t keep it to myself. It reminded me of the time when, just coming off [...]

So, how many states have YOU slept in?

… From A Mighty Long Way

It’s funny how a simple sound can take you all the way back to a place and time long forgotten. This morning I heard a sound that reminded me of glass against the post of a cyclone fence and was immediately back on my block, 95th Street, in Astoria, Queens. I was able to see [...]

S/He who knows the end of a thing…

…knows s/he has the means to conquer it.
John Maxwell: A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
Quotes on Overcoming Adversity

Showing Up

Waking from the feature-length teaching-related nightmare, I come to consciousness thanking God for preparing me as a teacher. If you noticed I did not say for teaching that’s the point. I woke with a deeper than ever, first realization really, that the Lord has used teaching to prepare me for kingdom purpose. This became patently [...]

Socratic method: The Remix

Why waste an opportunity to get closer to God? is the answer that comes to me as I get out of bed. It was along some indirect line of thought that it arrived. But it was the answer supplied to any number of questions past and future that are put to me. Now I understand [...]

God Uses Hangers

What if infinite supply were as simple as they say? Some have asserted that everything we need we already have and we have simply to recognize it. A lesson from the closet: This morning, after arriving at an idea interesting enough to get out of bed for, that is to say, conceiving an idea compelling [...]

ProEnglish?

A friend sent me the link to a website where we can communicate with legislators on any number of action items. While I am NOT a pro-English advocate, as are the website sponsors, I appreciate the notion of democracy for and by the people, and find the website’s features well-suited to communicating the pro-social values [...]

Taking the Shackles Off

Went out to Red Rock Canyon this afternoon to bring in the New Year with dance and praise. Mandisa’s Shackles made a great triumph song to usher in a new season, a new day. 

Life is Bella

What if words are my first fruits?
They wash over and through me all through the night. They twist the sheets and rat my hair, raise and lower my temperature and insist on themselves from the time I lay down until the time I get up, each time I get up, their march and throttle [...]