Family of Certainty

Rich, Vaite, and Ryan Counting Kin My niece Vaite visited us last week. She’s Tahitian and attends university in France. She’d been home to Papeete for the Christmas holidays and planned a week’s stopover here on her return trip. We’d negotiated a schedule so that she could spend time with us, visit my daughter in […]


Family of Certainty

Rich, Vaite, and Ryan Counting Kin My niece Vaite visited us last week. She’s Tahitian and attends university in France. She’d been home to Papeete for the Christmas holidays and planned a week’s stopover here on her return trip. We’d negotiated a schedule so that she could spend time with us, visit my daughter in […]


Everyday Gratitude

Service for Twelve Little Mercies I don’t love to shop. In fact I don’t even like to shop. When we need stuff, I feel a burden to be a good steward of our resources and make wise choices, but I don’t enjoy the thrill of searching for Just The Right Thing to meet our needs. So when Rich […]


Risk, Fear, and Peace

The Pacific Ocean Shaking It Up I’ve been struck lately by passages in the bible that describe people’s fear of Christ’s power. Mark 5 provides one example: 15 A crowd soon gathered around Jesus, and they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons. He was sitting there fully clothed and perfectly […]


Lessons in Trust

Cadence meets baby brother Sawyer Into the New Yesterday our precious grandson, Sawyer, was born. In my experience, God’s presence is never clearer than when a baby is entering this world. And He was certainly with us all as my daughter labored and delivered her second son. In the midst of all this joy, I hadn’t […]