June 2020
June 22
Day 100: Pillars in the Temple Unbelievable! 100 days. I'm trying to let that sink in. I'm thinking I might have to self-publish these posts ("Covid Diaries"), just so my children can have a coffee table book someday. Or not. What have we learned in the past 100 days? Pestilence didn't end in the middle […]
June 21
Day 99: Reset Every Sunday morning, even a Father's Day Sunday morning, even a Summer Solstice Sunday morning, is a gift from God. Fact is, any morning I wake up breathing is a gift from God. Sundays represent an opportunity for a reset, a repositioning of my coordinates. Strange how I come to each Sunday […]
June 20
Day 98: Immediately The Gospel writer Mark is my kind of writer. Short sentences. Almost like bullet points. Lands the plane quickly. Shortest gospel account. This is not to say I write like Mark; just that I like how he does it. Mark 1:18, in Mark's enviable style, says, "And immediately they (Simon and Andrew) […]
June 19
Day 97: Who's Asking? Perhaps one of the more frustrating things about our life at present is the lack of an "end date" in sight. Spikes in positive Covid tests this past week (thanks, Florida) has caused many in government to want to retreat, to pull back to Stage 0. Many in our cities, churches […]