Family Life

The last few weeks have been very busy. At work I started out with a long list of small jobs to do, loose ends to clean up, maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, some of it necessary, some of it just good customer service, good PR. I’m in the thick of it now, halfway through the list, and [...]

Note to regular readers: you will have noticed a absence of posts the last couple of days. You’ll understand why in a minute. I’m posting this two days late, but pretending to be on the date I would have written it, if I could. I hope to catch up to my regular blog routine today [...]

At bedtime prayers with the boys tonight, Joel asked me to pray for “keep me safe of dinosaurs, dragons, monsters and things like that.” So I did. A thunderstorm was passing by, and knowing how much Joel dislikes thunder I also prayed that God would protect the boys from thunder, lightning and the storm. Then [...]

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 [...]

I had to get up early this morning. One of my customers was coming to see me and I wanted to get in to work early to make sure everything was ready. So I set my alarm for 6am and went to bed an hour or two earlier than normal. I needn’t have bothered. I [...]