No matter how early Ash Wednesday comes every year we always have the assurance spring is waiting around the cold corner to unveil the earth with new life. It’s Ash Wednesday – almost. And it brings hope and a 40-day journey that has purpose and destination. Resurrection. Lent, an Old English word meaning spring, begins … [Read more...]
Wounds and Wonders
It was a Sunday in September in the year 1975 when four words changed the course of life. That was 14,609 days ago and all the in-betweens that came from a moment when just as I am reluctantly went to a church service by way of a child’s hand. And so, since I didn’t want to be there, a wretch like me had a plan of escape, and … [Read more...]
91 Todays
If we could turn back time, we probably wouldn’t. I wouldn’t. As much as I loved the sweet times of life when my children were young, I still wouldn’t turn back time. I don’t want to re-do my past and I don’t want to un-do it. If I had the ability to turn back time I might make the same mistakes and have to learn the hard way … [Read more...]