My brother Dan and I pulled up to our next job, a chain-link fence repair in Weippe, Idaho. We found a doublewide, a carport, an old shed out back buried in firewood and lumber, and an ATV. It was raining. We squinted through the windshield at the house. I rummaged

If only I could go back to my honeymoon… In such a statement, some would undoubtedly hear good relationships and well-planned relational times with the one you love best. Others, like me, would hear fanciful infatuation that loves the imagined more than reality. The honeymoon is often held up to

The internet has problems a Pollyanna couldn’t miss, but the trouble with human nature is when a problem is embedded into something we like, we have a hard time knowing where to stop. But hope is a virtue—which means we should have it—so I am trying to

We gather at many tables: for meals, for games, for song. School meetings, weddings, birthdays, Bible studies. In our Western cultures, the four legs and flat surface of a table carry the heart of our social interactions. As we cycle through our often chaotic days and lives we return to

Recently, two township officials stopped in for a meeting. During small talk before the meeting, one commented that he didn’t believe he had met me before. He knew my older brother from local auctions and other neighborhood events I seldom attend. The other official commented to my brother, “It&

Fifteen years ago, and brief ones at that, I rocked you to sleep on the recliner and sang to you. Now you are too grown for me to hold you on my lap, but you are not too grown for me to hold you up in prayer to your Creator.

Maybe greatness could have occurred….what happens when greatness does not occur? What happens, in fact, when fumble leads to error, leads to mishap, and before you know it, you have left the realm of ordinary mistake and chaos, and you have entered into the more ethereal, specialized realm of

What is the key to being a motivated person who is both positive and productive? An older fellow who drove log truck used to deliver a load of logs to our mill every day. He quietly and efficiently did his job and always had a congenial attitude. One day I

“Believe it or not, we need to forgive God,” the writer asserted. “When bad things happen, like illness or death or other setbacks, we may become angry with God or blame Him for the perceived injustices. Therefore, we need to forgive Him.” Initially, I rolled my eyes at this and

There is no l in the word chimney. Most people say they remember what they were doing when they heard the news of 9/11; I remember where I was standing when I discovered there is no l in chimney. It was on a box in the basement with the