One of the consistent things in our neighborhood is the very steady flow of ice-cream trucks up and down our street. In the six years that I have lived here, I have never bought ice-cream from any of them. Until yesterday I can’t remember the occasion, but I had told the kids last week that… Continue reading Rite of passage, South Central style
Quotation of the Week (two for the price of one)
On a mission trip in Honduras a few years ago, we were all sitting with some of the villagers around a fire in the evening. One of the members of our team said, “Let’s all go around and share our favorite Bible verse.” This sort of thing can be tough for us scripturally challenged Methodists!… Continue reading Quotation of the Week (two for the price of one)
The end of eHarmony?
I read an interesting piece this past week over at Mark Galli’s blog where he quotes a portion of a recent Atlantic Monthly article titled: “Marry Him.” He leads with this quotation from the article: My advice is this: Settle! That’s right. Don’t worry about passion or intense connection. Don’t nix a guy based on… Continue reading The end of eHarmony?
Quotation of the Week
People who have encountered the cross, people who have carried a small part of it, know something that is the source of incredible joy: that evil is only the second-most powerful force in the universe. Do you know that? That is what the cross tells us—that there is something bigger and wider and deeper than… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
I love Facebook
Last night we were so grateful to have someone very dear to us come for a visit. He was in San Diego for business, and he was able to shift his outbound flight from San Diego to LAX (and willing to forsake a day at a pretty amazing spa resort) to come up and see… Continue reading I love Facebook
Smitten
We did it. My parents flew down for a long weekend and today they treated all the grandkids (and parents!) to a day at Disneyland. I told Mercy that we were going to meet Cinderella. I told her other things that we would do there, but I don’t think she heard anything after that. She… Continue reading Smitten
Billy’s Bucket
My sister was kind enough to take Mercy to the downtown library last week, and Mercy and Aaron are so excited to have new books in the house. Aaron is addicted to a Thomas the Tank Engine storybook collection (he finds the page with the Troublesome Trucks story every time and wants to read it),… Continue reading Billy’s Bucket
Quotation of the Week
When a staff person in a church is approached by a church member with a criticism about another staff person, that staff member should ask four questions: 1. Have you personally talked with the person mentioned? 2. Would you like me to go with you when you do? 3. What is your intention in raising… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
Dispatch
When talking with various people about our church, our conviction regarding being a “parish” church is often the greatest stumbling block for folks. Especially here in the land of car and commute, making claims on where one lives and how that relates to where one worships can seem offensive to many. This past week I… Continue reading Dispatch
When things don’t add up
There is this parenting phenomenon that I am finding particularly frustrating of late. In our daily life at home, there are days when we are largely housebound, due to a number of factors. Recently those factors have included being sick, Elijah’s nap schedule, my work schedule, etc. On those days, when the kids are getting… Continue reading When things don’t add up