Dreaming up Delights, Part Three

July 20, 2012 By

Wedding People.  [The last in a series of three posts celebrating the July 15 wedding of my dad, Rod Seiler, and Mercedes Garcia. You’ll find Part One here and Part Two here.] The Fury All morning I’d felt the brink, known I was tottering right to it. I didn’t want to be upset on my […]


Filed Under: family, father, God's omnipotence, grace, grief, Isaiah 61, love, redemption, wedding

Dreaming up Delights

July 16, 2012 By

Me, Dad, Mercedes.  July 15, 2012. Roll the ReelsSaturday night I dreamed up one long sequence of lovely things. Rich and I traveled to some new exotic tropical place, wriggling toes into warm peach sand and sighing together with the sun as the horizon swallowed it. I sat in an auditorium filled with hundreds and […]


Filed Under: 1 Peter 4, courage, family, father, God's omnipotence, love, wedding

In Loving Memory

July 13, 2012 By

 Sean and His Dad. After a Tour in Iraq.  Sean, Son Ayden, Sister Rebecca, Brother Ryan. Christmas, 2005. Ayden in Daddy’s Helmet. Memories on Our Wall. At Sean’s Grave.  Today, we remember. We weep, because we love. We rejoice in the gift of you. We read God’s promise, twice. Hymns echo in our hearts, resonating in the hollow […]


Filed Under: child, family, God's omnipotence, gratitude, grief, heaven, love, pain, Revelation 21, separation, waiting

Independence Day

July 4, 2012 By

Fireworks over the Pacific Ocean. July 4, 2010. Set Free!Picnics, parades, and potato salad, fireworks and family. It must be the Fourth of July. Our niece, Vaite, visiting from her home in Tahiti, wrote:  July 4th is a great celebration day, to see people’s love for America it’s amazing …  Amazing. I never thought of […]


Filed Under: courage, family, Fourth of July, freedom, God's omnipotence, James 1, John 8, promise, salvation

How the Strawberries Led Me to Surrender

June 29, 2012 By

The Perfect Roadster Red. It’s In There Somewhere. The War for the RedsAfter church last Sunday we went to the grocery store. We bought strawberries and tomatoes, along with many other good things to eat, but it was the strawberries (together with the tomatoes), that led me to give up, again, and hand things over to […]


Filed Under: blessings, church, family, God's omnipotence, grace, grief, Pastor Robert Jacobsen, Romans 8, sing, worship
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