I mispell things!
for holy week i have three goals for tapestry. that we spend a good bit of time in prayer that we spend a good bit of time in serving that we spend a good bit of time in scripture for prayer we did this by putting on a labyrinth for the community. this is hard …
we have been having some pretty bad storms around the point area recently. it actually has been kind of reminiscent of when pam and i lived in mobile, alabama where major storms happen every summer afternoon. i have never seen roads flood as often around here. over the past four years in central wisconsin our …
i’m too tired to type much but i want to say that i love the way the threads of tapestry participate in holy week. each year we try to do an act of service during the week and then do a simple tenebrae gathering to remember CHRIST’s curcifixion. this year we fed at place …
as many of you know i have used a good bit the jambalaya pot and equipment that parkview, jess, meg, and josh gave me when i left baton rouge. yesterday i was using it to cook the weekly meal for “the place of peace” and had a first time experience. “the place of peace” is …
i just wanted to say “thanks” again to so many of you. when i left parkview a year ago they threw a party (i’m still not sure if it was out of joy or sadness over me leaving). at the end of the party jess, meg, josh, and the parkview youth gave me a jambalaya …
I once heard Tony Campolo say that if you really want to know if you are Christian, just ask your waitress. I really like his point, because the gospel should shape how we treat all those around us, and that begins with those closest to us. This is all the more true during the pandemic …
I am presently in North Carolina at the Ridgecrest Conference Center for continuing education as a chaplain. The company that I chaplain through, Corporate Chaplains of America, does this twice a year and I am appreciative of this training – though more so when it doesn’t take me away from home and church on weekends. …
Two quotes from the books I have been reading recently have really been connecting with me. The first is from Hans Rosling’s “Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things are Better Than You Think.” Rosling wrote: Being intelligent — being good with numbers, or being well educated, or even winning …
NOTE – I wrote this blog post a little over a week ago based on some struggles I had been experiencing with people who I care for. I was going to post it right after writing it, then the Executive Order travel ban happened. As a result of the ban I worried at that time because of …
Since the local newspaper only keeps obituaries online for a year I thought I would post dad’s obituary here on my blog. Also for those who want to attend dad’s memorial it will be Monday, October 19th at 6 p.m. at Forest Lawn Funeral Home, 9700 Celeste Rd, Saraland, AL with visitation an hour before the …