I’m not sure why this is true but every year around this time life speeds up to hyperspeed and I wonder how on earth I will ever make it through. That’s the main reason why I haven’t posted much lately; I am rather overwhelmed.
One thing I’ve spent time on this weekend is preparing for [...]

I was deeply moved by an update from the wife of a friend and fellow librarian, in which she wrote today that:
“I do not know exactly what to say. We are in the Valley.
These are holy moments. The Lord is near.
John is exhausted from fighting the disease and an infection.
John gave me a blessing this [...]

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My brother and sister-in-law, Tim and Linda, played this for us when we had breakfast at their house yesterday.  It just blew me away and I had a good cry.  God uses the most unlikely people, and the most unlikely circumstances, to make a huge statement about His love.  I love my great God.

My wife is married to a fool. Yes, that’s me. Why am I fool? Well, there are several reasons, but the one that has hit home to me recently is that for years I have put most of my efforts into things that won’t last. Like creating a wonderful, intricate ice [...]

My kids come up with the funniest things to say sometimes.  This morning, for example, Tristan was watching something on TV about the baby beluga whale that was recently born at the Shedd Aquarium.  He rushed upstairs to tell me, with great excitement:  “Dad!  Did you know that zoo we went to recently has a [...]

I’ve never participated in a meme before, but I kinda like the one I just found in a very serendipitous way on a blog named Bella Dia.  (This is a blog I have to tell Michele about, if she doesn’t know about it already.  Michele is a blog-reading fiend when it comes to blogs like [...]

Dear Steve,
In a few days you are going to be 40 years old. I’m sure at this stage of your life, you are asking yourself what this means and how you should handle this milestone. You may be asking yourself questions like, “Am I officially ‘old’ now?” or “Is it all downhill from [...]

"The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing." Zephaniah 3:16

I like this scripture verse from Ecclesiastes 11:5. We tend to think in our world that we know it all, and we don't:
"As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mothers womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the [...]