Family Life

I was browsing through my photos and came across this one, taken at Christmastime a couple of years ago. We stayed the night in an old military cargo plane, parked on a farm in the middle of nowhere and outfitted as a motel unit. This is one of the windows in the side of the [...]

Stephen Lawhead’s novel Byzantium opens with “I saw Byzantium in a dream, and knew that I would die there.” And so Aidan, a young Irish monk, goes through much of the book really stressed about his own demise upon reaching Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire. Despite his grave misgivings he sets sail from [...]

Today at church the speaker reminded me of an excellent example of what I posted yesterday. He spoke about Joseph, and how he endured hatred, injustice and suffering, and yet through it all maintained his integrity and faith. I remembered a Bible study series from many years ago that presented Joseph as a type of [...]

Crisis piled upon me heap upon heap, panic, stress, urgent demands. My perspective shrinks to a tightly narrowed focus. Look only at the task at hand, lest I be overwhelmed by the towering burden of responsibility. Step carefully through the minefield. Stumble and the whole thing comes crashing down around me. One step at a [...]

Boy, it has been a long week. I achieved a very successful conclusion to all four of my machines that were due today. One customer spent all day playing with his new machine. It worked flawlessly. Another customer shows up on Monday to take two more of the machines. The fourth ships out next Friday. [...]