At Frankie’s Confession

I love the story of Frankie’s confession – as told by Frank McCourt in his famous autobiography Angela’s Ashes.

The story takes place in Limerick, Ireland when he was a young boy…

His mother had just given birth, and their in-laws from the north sent some money to buy milk for the new baby. But his father, an alcoholic, has taken the money and is drinking it up in the pubs.

His mother sends Frankie to find his dad and bring him home.

Young Frankie can’t find his father, but what he finds instead is… Read More

Sundays Are For Sharing

Sundays are for sharing – so here are some shout-outs to three great writers: Carlos Rodriguez, Kathy Escobar, and Jason Isaacs. Please take a few minutes to read what they shared online this week…

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1. This post: 9 Reasons Sinners Went To Jesus But Don’t Come To Us by Carlos Rodriguez.

Here’s my favorite line(s): “1. Because we complain. About politics, Obama, abortion, Islam, liberal media, sex, taxes and… Read More

Normally I Am Slow

Normally I am slow. I like to take my time thinking about stuff. You won’t get big reactions from me. And if you ask what I think about some big issue or crisis du jour… my favorite answer is “I don’t know.” I joke with Shari that my gravestone should say “I don’t know” on it (she asks billions of questions and gets this answer from me all the time).

Normally I am slow. But not yesterday.

Things started out pretty typical. Shari left the house first. Then I got Ashah off to school. I was enjoying those few moments of quietness (OK, it was my 30-minute nap that I take every morning) when all of the sudden, my phone blew up.

I’ve never heard text messages come in such rapid succession. It was vibration… Read More

Love Like The Sunrise

On Monday morning, Shari, Ashah, and Ashah’s friend Mackenzie left the house at 4:30am to drive up to Naches Peak Loop – which is part of the Pacific Crest Trail near Mt. Rainier. They wanted to watch the sun rise.

I stayed at home, in bed.

Ashah came home with… Read More

Yay Internet! It’s Been a Good Week.

On Sundays I like to share what I thought was particularly good on the Internet from the week.  So here they are – from my screen to yours – a few shout-out-worthy posts…

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This post: Shallow Small Group Bible Study from RightNowMedia.org. Here’s my favorite line: “Some people say we’re superficial. But, hey, the word ‘super’ is in superficial. I mean, who doesn’t want to be… Read More

A Better, More Beautiful Way

I’m obsessed with this idea…

There is a better, more beautiful way. I want to be about this. And I want to be working together with Kingdom of God people who are about this.

Admittedly it is not a fully formed thought—not for me anyway, not yet. But like I said, I’m obsessed with it. I can’t stop thinking about it. One of the ways I like to work on unformed ideas is to talk about them (or tweet them).

Last week I tweeted… Read More