Author Thoughts Today – Hurled – 091525 Have you ever side-armed a flat stone across a still pond and watched it skip? The harder the stone is hurled, the more it skips before giving in to gravity and slipping into the ultimate destination – the water of the pond. A Life of Faith is a […]
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Author Thoughts Today No More Turning Away – 091125 As I packed away my laptop to head into the building at a job I had just started a week earlier with Roche Diagnostics in Indianapolis, I caught the tail end of a new broadcast that said a small private plane had crashed into the World […]
A cup of coffee on the deck with two cats watching the sun hiding behind a foggy shroud was my silent time this morning. One of the benefits of being unsupervised is the freedom to enjoy the peace and solitude of a new day. I listened for the still, small voice of God but only […]
Lost I’m writing today, as in most days, highly focused and dialed into a storyline…and, oh look, a squirrel. Perhaps I’ve confused reaching saturation with being highly focused. I had so many tabs open across the top of my browser that I lost count, but what was the point? It was too damn many to choose […]
Author Thoughts – Hey Man! – 081925 I’m unsure how these things happen, but I assure you I attempted to mind my business until it was no longer possible. I concentrated on a glass of dry cabernet when an individual sat next to me…with the appropriate empty chair between us, of course. I knew him […]
Author Thoughts Today – Why Fight It – 081825 I learned a new word this weekend – Eremitism – The act of gradually fading from the lives of others, not out of malice but a desire for solitude or peace. I get that, and I appreciate the need for it sometimes. Now that I’m unsupervised, I […]
Author Thoughts – GriefShare – 081425 We finished week 2 of 13 weeks of GriefShare this evening. As a facilitator, I always want to see signs of progress with our participants. It may be selfish of me to want to see an impact each week, but that’s not always the case. The program is 13 […]
Author Thoughts Today – Resurfacing – 081325 What does an author do when an established character gets blindsided by a new character in the story? Not just a new character, but one created by the originally established character. Maybe nepotism works both ways. AIMEE has been my favorite since Zackery gave her a name. Zack […]
Author Thoughts Today – Mark Batterson’s “Please, Sorry, Thanks” – Day 2 of 5 – 081225 “Let There Be Light” The Doppler effect tells us that the universe is still expand¬ing. In other words, the words God spoke, in the beginning, are still creating galaxies at the outer edge of the universe. The universe is […]
Author Thoughts Today – Mark Batterson’s “Double Blessing” – Day 4 of 5 – 080825 “Take the mercy of God, for example. The mercy God has shown you is as unique as your fingerprint. The writer of Lamentations said that God’s mercies are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22–23). The Hebrew word for “new” doesn’t just mean “again […]