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The KID is Still Here
Sep 6, 2024
The KID is Still Here
Sep 6, 2024

My attitude as a counselor myself about inner child theories had been skeptical at least if not just thinking it was bunk.  My therapists faced an uphill battle getting me to recognize this kid. 

Sep 6, 2024
Evacuees: Box Checked Now
Aug 10, 2024
Evacuees: Box Checked Now
Aug 10, 2024

We kept hearing ‘war stories' from other evacuees.  We heard only bits and pieces of what was happening in Jasper.  Two of the fires had come together, picked up speed and hit town Wednesday afternoon.  The fire entered the west side of town—the same route we exited.  (Now we know a third of the buildings in town were destroyed). 

Aug 10, 2024
MATES
Jul 10, 2024
MATES
Jul 10, 2024

Sadly, churches are sorely lacking as safe places to share honestly.  Too often under the guise of “I share this again as a prayer concern” confidence is breached in a thin disguise for gossip. 

Jul 10, 2024
On Being Different
Jun 4, 2024
On Being Different
Jun 4, 2024

I will probably be a searcher until I die and hopefully death itself will only be another adventure. To live any other way seems impossible— James Kavanaugh

Jun 4, 2024
Hi, I’m Mike…I talk to trees
May 1, 2024
Hi, I’m Mike…I talk to trees
May 1, 2024

So, I told mom what had happened since she had left—she had died Christmas-eve of 1991.  I filled her in on great-grandkids, one granddaughter named after her, Evie.   I told her about the life we had now after being married almost forty years. 

May 1, 2024
HOLY KISSING
Apr 6, 2024
HOLY KISSING
Apr 6, 2024

And what about the wierdos?  My teen-age daughters used to come home and talk about ‘that man’ in the church.  (Every church has one).  “Daddy, that man hugs all the girls with a funny hug.”  My reply: “When he does, rub your lipstick all over his shirt and let his wife straighten him out”.

Apr 6, 2024
Deeper, Further, Beyond
Feb 19, 2024
Deeper, Further, Beyond
Feb 19, 2024

until—we notice cracks.  Some, if not more of the teachings we heard were incomplete, inadequate if not even misleading.  Our own experience over those years did not support what we’d heard, what we’d been told.

Feb 19, 2024
Just Taking Tickets?
Feb 1, 2024
Just Taking Tickets?
Feb 1, 2024

Yesterday we buried one of the sweetest, most gentle men I’ve ever known.  Clyde was near the top of the list of the most encouraging people.  He was a greeter at the sanctuary door of our church for decades—shaking hands and hugging necks.  Even if you’d been gone for a good while, Clyde would remember your name.

Feb 1, 2024
Aspiration or Envy or Covetousness 
Jan 29, 2024
Aspiration or Envy or Covetousness 
Jan 29, 2024

I live in overthink. I have my whole life.  It is the disease of introspection.  As I overthink this, when it comes to my aspirations, I come down on the good side.  We do well to have a sense of aspiration, to imagine or to dream of what could be.  It’s been a good path for me—and many others who have created the lives, the culture we all live in the midst of.  

Jan 29, 2024
The Bittersweetness of Loss
Jan 29, 2024
The Bittersweetness of Loss
Jan 29, 2024

I would not change any of the choices I made.  I just wish these guys had lived a few years more until the drug cocktail was available enabling them to live a full life.  I’ve lived on to tell you just one of their stories here. 

Jan 29, 2024

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