I Will Survive

If I did one thing wrong, he was not averse to smacking me upside the head, or so I thought.

Grief

These are my sisters. I am only related to the one on the left, Becky. She is my closest relative and I love her with all my heart. The other two are my sister’s lifelong friends Stacey in the middle and Lavada on the right. At some point, the combination of time, familiarity and friendship […]

The Swinger

When my son was first born, I was on the cusp of going into the ministry. Because I was quasi clergy, I felt that I had to put a positive spin on everything. I said obnoxious things like, “thank God this happened to us. We have the resources and a strong relationship. We can deal […]

Good is the new awful

Forgive me FSP, for I have not blogged. My job has been kicking my butt of late. But it pays the bills, so I cannot complain too much. But I have been coming home completely drained of creative energy. Thus my blog has suffered. So I am getting back on the horse today. It is […]

Legacy Code

I had my Imagine meeting this morning. It was our second to the last meeting. Not sure what comes next, but I’m open to possibilities. We are reading the book Naked Spirituality by Brian McLaren. I had procrastinated all week and as of noon yesterday, I had not read the second half of the book […]

Imagine, part 6

Crash! I preface this post with a couple of thoughts. It is impossible for me to put into words how much I love my son. He inspires me daily. Let me be clear I do not in any way, shape or form blame him for what happened to me. What follows is purely the result […]

I Can Do All Things (Phil four thirteen)

Go to church long enough and the same topics and scriptures are repeated. If they use the lectionary it is roughly every three years or so. At most churches it is somewhere between 3 and 5 years…except around Christmas and Easter, they are repeated annually. Rarely do you hear a good sermon about Jael driving […]

Thought Crimes

I went to a small Bible College with an enrollment of roughly 500. It was a conservative college right smack in the middle of Santa Cruz County. To say that our neighbors did not share our world view would be a gross understatement. We used to joke about ourselves saying that we lived in the […]

Mixed Bag

This is going to be one of those postings where I just start writing until something clicks. It may just be random mush. I just found out that one of my professors is college died suddenly. He had heart surgery on Friday to remove a benign tumor. I am not sure what happened, but apparently […]