Category: Word of the Week

Happy Monday! Winding down our latest bike tour inspires today’s word-of-the-week… BLUR Life passes so quickly. One moment she’s a tiny baby. Then it’s kindergarten, graduation, wedding, and grandchildren. We’re often left saying, “Seems like only yesterday…” FLORIDA HOPE TOUR 2013 seems like a blur. Seems like one day we were in Jacksonville preparing to […]

Happy Monday! This week’s unexpected developments re-taught the importance of today’s word-of-the-week… MISSION I’ve never been a fan of official mission statements. In many organizations they’re fancy words that don’t have much impact on what actually happens. Most of you are aware of the unfortunate injury that impacted the end of our Florida Tour. If […]

Happy Monday! It’s the start of the final week of Florida Hope Tour 2013 and time for today’s word-of-the-week… FINISH My track coaches always talked about “running through the tape.” The idea was not to let up before you finish. When the end’s in sight, it’s easy to slow down and coast. It takes a […]

Happy Monday! The beginning of week #4 of our Florida tour finds me experiencing today’s word-of-the-week… SCRAMBLED This isn’t about eggs. It’s about our schedule, the crazy way opportunities appear, the wonderfully unexpected way God interrupts our plans. Anyone watching would think the whole thing is scrambled. Have you ever thought God’s work should go […]

Happy Monday! A reporter’s question prompts today’s word-of-the-week… PURPOSE The reporter asked, “Aside from feeling good about yourself, why do you do these rides?” I thought about it later on route A1A. Am I doing all this so I can “feel good about myself”? Or maybe so others will feel better about me? Is this […]

Happy Monday! The second week of Florida Hope Tour 2013 inspires today’s word-of-the-week… PERSIST I’ve noticed as I crank along how often I pray for comfort. I basically ask God to take away the hard stretches of life. Do you ever catch yourself doing that? It’s not about suffering or pain, just wishing away the […]

Happy Monday! We’re hitting the road today for Florida Hope Tour 2013, which inspires today’s word-of-the-week… WORK I’ve said before that one of the cool things about these crazy bike trips is the opportunity to visit a variety of churches. Yesterday a pastor talked about John 17:4. Jesus is in the upper room with His […]

Happy Monday! A Sunday school class we visited this weekend got me thinking about today’s word-of-the-week… END If you’ve hung around the bible at all, you’ve heard of The Beatitudes. (Matthew 5:3-11) It’s always good to hear familiar verses phrased in new ways. The first of The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3) says: “Blessed are the poor […]

Happy Monday! This morning I’m vowing to fix a situation described by today’s word-of-the-week… DERAILED We have a model train with special Christmas-themed cars. It’s a fun holiday decoration, but one of the cars tends to derail frequently. The train still moves along its path, but the derailed wheel makes the journey sort of bumpy […]

It’s New Year’s Eve, and I have a simple word-of-the-week… CLICK If we believe the pundits, the Mayan calendar was wrong. The REAL end of the world comes when we plunge over the so-called fiscal cliff. Call me cynical, but I don’t think that’ll happen. The irresponsible politicians who invented this latest crisis will find […]

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 […]

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 […]