Cloud of Mystery

My friend, Doug Kreighbaum, talked last weekend about the ancient mystics believing in a Cloud of Mystery. When they encountered issues in life that were too hard-to-explain, they just tucked those away inside the Cloud and left them for God to sort out. I like that....

Big Dreams

Our family has some audacious dreams. You know, things like being able to bring our children up as successful human beings. But, we also tend to dream about other things: like bagging a trophy elk, creating an amazing ballet, writing great novels of enduring-value, or...

Singing to a City

So, I’m headed to Omaha this weekend where our daughter, Charity Long, is doing a debut concert for her new EP, Love More Perfect. How many words in that sentence are the things dreams are made of? Charity has been singing as long as we can remember, of course....

Some Things We Can’t Change

I’m reminded this week of some some things we can’t change no matter how much we try. We can’t make it rain, for instance. Three months of no moisture has been hard on us out here in farm country. A man could break an ankle from some of the cracks in...