Rich and Becky do some things that just don’t make sense. Most of the time I just go along. I figure I’m just a dog and they’re smarter than I am. But Rich does this one really dumb thing every winter. Now Becky’s doing it, too, and even a dog can see it makes no […]
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Note: I’m taking a little break this week, so my favorite guest blogger is filling in both here and over at RICH’S RIDE. # # # Rich and Becky do some things that just don’t make sense. Most of the time I just go along. I figure I’m just a dog and they’re smarter than […]
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Happy New Year! Some thoughts about jumping into 2013 in the last 2012 edition of Rich’s Semi-Regular Newsletter.
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For a couple of days, it’s time to stop. For a couple of days, no talk of rides and books and Florida. For a couple of days we let that stuff go and remember why we’re doing this. More than two thousand years ago a little baby was born. His birth changed history and brought […]
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Happy Monday! It’s Christmas Eve, the perfect time for this word-of-the-week… MESSY In our house we have a couple of nativity scenes. One’s white-and-gold porcelain, the other’s beautifully carved from walnut by a friend. They’re neat and pretty, and they don’t smell. The first Christmas was a mess. People traveled to their ancestral home of […]
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I just realized I haven’t written much about Christmas…makes me wonder what’s going on. A few days ago I googled “Christmas” just to see what would appear. After the obligatory Wikipedia entry, nearly the entire first page of search results dealt with stuff for sale. I started shaking my head in self-righteous judgment of those […]
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But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Luke 18:16-17 I’m […]
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A dream is the God-inspired desire to share your unique gifts and passions to serve others and change the world. I don’t think I realized it was possible to work so hard and have so much fun. That was my thought as we finished up this weekend. Becky and I were really busy signing and […]
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Jon Swanson wrote a really generous piece last week about the new book. Except it wasn’t really about the book at all. I first “met” Jon, 300 words at a time, through his blog. I commented a few times, then wrote a couple of guest articles. During the Mississippi River trip, we finally met face–to-face […]
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Happy Monday! Horrors from an idyllic Connecticut town inspire an unwanted word-of-the-week… UNSPEAKABLE I can’t think of words for the evil that prompts the murder of innocent five- and six-year-old children and those who care for them. It’s quite literally unspeakable. We grieve with those who lost loved ones and with those who must face […]
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Happy Saturday! Things like this fascinate me. Maybe it’s the former teacher aspect of my personality. This one’s really short. Take a look, and then I’ll offer some quick comments. Can’t see the video? Click here. Were you surprised by the end? I was. I admire the ability to look at something from a completely unexpected […]
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Today’s one of those days that helps me see there’s something bigger going on. Sometime this afternoon some books will arrive. I’ll get to see, for the first time, actual physical copies of the new book. For me, that’s a big deal, but it’s not an isolated event. Thirteen years ago it took me nearly […]
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