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This morning my beloved and i were chatting about the craziness that is the year end duties of a first grade teacher when i got a goofy smile on my face … Not because my wife was going crazy (that would cause me great bodily harm!) … No, it was because i realized just how… Read more

Yesterday i was absolutely fortunate enough to get to spend two hours of my life with some of the most precious people on the planet … Many of whom had been counted as trusted and loved friends not by years, but decades … The ones that were new, well, that made it even MORE special… Read more

I’m gonna let you in on a secret … I grew up with, what i thought, was the best parents on the planet … Mom only lost her throne a couple decades ago when a new one took her place (she’d have agreed, heck she gave me her ring when i proposed to the lady!)… Read more

This may be a first … an instagram post of a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show has led to a devotional 🙂 … Time sure is fleeting 🙂 … I remember … Ok ok ok … Enough of that … My cousin shared a link today with me about a showing of that… Read more

A couple decades ago i had a boss at work that talked about different job duties and assignments in a way that has stuck with me over the years … One of his favorite dishes, sushi, always came with extra “rice bowls” and he used them as an example when talking about assignments … Saying… Read more

Warning … Bad joke comin’ in hot … “what’s your first couple and last couple birthdays got in common ????” … “you don’t recognize many of the people, you’re in diapers, but, there’s cake” … Ouch … You were warned … Now, for someone who’s been on this rock around the sun for more times… Read more

My mom used to tell me the Good Lord gave me 2 ears and 1 mouth but i never quite got the ratio right as a teenager … (no comments from the peanut gallery out there !!!!) … But, i read  something the other day that kinda stopped me in my tracks … “you hear… Read more

Ya know when i was a youngen and they were tryin to get us to remember all of the states in the country (no comments about pangea or the continential drift!) they knew that tryin’ to get 10 year olds to remember all 50 states (yes, i’m not that old!) would be tough, so, they… Read more

First, credit where credit is due … Underlying premise for this was brought up as a theory by my brilliant Disciple 1 teacher two decades ago … I’m bringing this up straight off the bat for 2 reasons … (1) … Regardless of your station in Christian Ed, you can ALWAYS benefit from communion with… Read more

For those of y’all that don’t know this part of our ministry, that little banner that flies by on our videos and is our mast head is made up of the little wooden “tuit’s” that are replicas that we started making to keep up the tradition that my beloved Pappeye had started 50 years ago… Read more

Ok … What were you doin’ when you were a young teenager … errrr … Scratch that … I probably don’t want to know .. (i do teach them AND was one!) … how about being visited from an Angel of God and being told that YOU have been chosen to be the mother of… Read more

Growin’ up with a very young (and very active!) mom and dad as a child of the 70’s, i think it was inevitable that i was gonna be in sports (especially since we drove my mom crazy most of the time by the amount of times she’s day “you kids” and “when does school start… Read more

Ya know, there’s an expression i learned in shop class … “i’ve cut this board 7 times and it’s STILL TOO SHORT” … For when we go barkin’ up the wrong tree again and again or keep goin’ back to the same well expecting different results … Ya know, that class taught me a ton… Read more

Warning … Mixing song references here … I’ve been all around this great big world and i’ve done all kinds of things and done them my …. (then) His WAYYYYYYY … Ok … Time to back up … I don’t have a picture to show of this, but, a memory that i’ll take to my… Read more

For anyone lucky enough to have known BOTH my pappeye and my papa in passing would have said this … “there were never two more different men” … But, for those few of us that were TRULY lucky to have REALLY known them, while the outside may have been very different, well, let’s say cut… Read more