When I Need to Restore My Focus
This:
Not the best recording of her on YouTube, but my favorite.
Well, not quite. I’ll be driving. My stepson John Webb is a pitcher for the Iowa Cubs (Chicago Cubs AAA team in the Pacific Coast League) who are in New Orleans for a series against the New Orleans Zephyrs. Last night the Cubs beat the Zephyrs and John put in two good innings in relief….
Tomorrow is the 2nd anniversary of Becky Lynn Black’s homegoing. Dave has been posting some testimonies on his web site. I never met Becky, so I can’t relate personal experiences. But there is a way for me (and others) to learn from her. I’m going to post my publisher’s foreword to her book My Life…
My theme text for ministry is Psalm 78:1-8, particularly verses 5 & 6 which talk about passing the message down through generations. Some see this as a simple passing on of the data of faith, but the passage is talking about relating the experience of the community with God from generation to generation. In other…
One of my favorite TV episodes of all time is the West Wing episode In Excelsis Deo. In it, Toby Ziegler arranges a funeral for a homeless veteran of the Korean War who died of exposure. Toward the end, President Bartlet is asking Toby about his use of the president’s name to arrange it. ”…
We interrupt the usual flow of commentary on this blog for something both baseball and personal . . . My stepson John Webb is pitcher of the week for the PCL, according to this MiLB.com story. John allowed only three hits in 8 shutout innings while earning the win against the then-division leading Nashville Sounds….
As I move on inexorably toward 60, I am encouraged by this. Of course, I couldn’t play baseball at 20, and won’t be able to at 60, but there are other things!