Fruitful Detours
The following chart gave me a shock. It doesn’t look like much at first. But then I started thinking, and doodling, and checking off boxes. I encourage you to print this first blank chart, and do the same thing. Then my chart looked like this: As I checked all these little boxes, several things stood […]
The “Day of the Dead” is actually celebrated on two days: November 1 and 2. The first day is dedicated to children who have died, and is called “The Day of the Innocents.” November 2 is a day for celebrating the lives of adults who have died, and is called “Dia de Muertos.” While not […]
Life has a certain pattern to it. We get up, we do things, we eat, we go to bed. The cycle continues. At times, it can feel dull — “this again?” Then something happens that breaks the patterns of life in sudden surprising ways. It could be good — an amazing sunset, or a wonderful […]
Frederick Buechner died on August 15, 2022. This hit me like a punch to the stomach. No one has touched me with their writing like Frederick Buechner. When I am writing a sermon and I think I have nothing to say, I read Buechner. When life gets hard, I read Buechner. When I was feeling […]