In the Moment

by | May 14, 2012 | happy endings

Saturday morning, I caught myself practically hyperventilating over my calendar. I pulled it up just to check about a detail for Monday. But that led to Tuesday, and then Wednesday, and then the first two weeks of June, and then it was August and school was starting...

Neatly Folded

by | Apr 26, 2012 | happy endings

Recently, I took a vacation day to clean our closet. This may seem like an extravagant use of a vacation day, but it has yielded great rewards. Our closet is the first thing I see in the mornings when I stumble from our bed to put on my work-out clothes. See is a...

Life to My Days

by | Apr 23, 2012 | happy endings, mercy

This week, I heard an add for a local  Hospice program: Adding life to days when adding days to life isn’t possible. Isn’t that beautiful? Unfortunately, it is flawed. Adding days to life is never possible. The only person who ever tried it came to a very...

Sometimes We See Eagles

by | Apr 20, 2012 | happy endings

I saw an eagle on the lake today. It’s one of the perks of living Forty-Five minutes from Anywhere. We may not have a Starbucks, but sometimes we see eagles. It had been a tough day around here. Our intentional community in the middle of a cornfield is all about...

The Pay-Off

by | Apr 12, 2012 | family, happy endings

One of the [few] things Wendell and I have consistently done right in life [I think] has to do with giving. We have tried to always be faithful in tithing and in offerings and in alms. Even when we couldn’t pay all the bills we had wracked up from poor choices...

Going On Down the Road

by | Mar 21, 2012 | happy endings, mercy

We were in a tornado the other night. Well, it flew over us, evidently, while we were traveling along I-80 in Nebraska. We had been driving six hours in hard wind and a sometimes-blinding sand storm. I was in no mood for disaster weather. In fact, I was aching for the...