On Awaiting Better Things

September 5, 2012 By

Parking on Observatory Road. Griffith Park. September, 2012. Clinging to First Glimpses We spent the afternoon of our wedding anniversary visiting the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. If you’ve never been there, I encourage you to go. The entire facility bears testimony to our God-given curiosity, drive to discover, powers of reason, inspiration, courage to […]


Filed Under: clarity, God's omnipotence, promise, Psalm 27, travel, waiting

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

My Brain’s Working the Graveyard Shift

June 27, 2012 By

Boys Learning Baseball. Hawaii. May, 2012. Learning’s LivelinessI can’t shut my brain off. I lie awake at night puzzling over our chart of accounts. I close my eyes, and an onscreen menu lights up my eyelids, defying my effort to sleep. I’m thinking of payables and receivables and adjusting journal entries. And I don’t even like […]


Filed Under: God's omnipotence, love, mercy, surrender, vision, waiting, work, Zephaniah 3

For a Time Such as This

June 22, 2012 By

Sawyer, Elaine, Cadence. North Shore, Oahu. May, 2012.  Threads in the Tapestry“Offer the bread to the person beside you, then serve yourself.” “Place the bread on your plate first, then pick it up and take a bite. Even when you’re really hungry.”“Don’t butter the whole piece of bread. Instead, break off a small piece, butter […]


Filed Under: blessings, child, clarity, coincidence, family, gifts, God's omnipotence, Psalm 37, waiting

Cadence’s Fair Game

May 2, 2012 By

Cadence and the Army Men. The Epic Next to the Coffee Table “Lala, I’ll be the green guys,” Cadence said, as we hunkered down on the living room floor. “You can be the brown guys. And here: You can have my Green Lantern.” He offered me a plastic toy that stood in Gulliveresque proportion to […]


Filed Under: blessings, faith, family, God's omnipotence, grandchildren, play, waiting
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