Category: Lent

Music touches the soul in unique ways and if the words are substantial they bite home like mere rhetoric and sermonizing only wishes it could. I was just listening to a song by Full Time Faith, which changed their name…

They plowed our street overnight. There wasn’t much left on the road surface this morning and by lunchtime the sun had melted what was left and the road surface was clear. And just as I imagined yesterday, the backyard was…

It has finally begun to snow in earnest. The forecast had it arriving this morning, but it wasn’t until around noon that the mist turned to real flakes dancing in the wind. Now it is a hoard of flakes filling…

It is Sunday. Sunday’s are breaks from the observance of Lent. They are a day of rest to get ready for the intensity of the next six. We went to services this morning, and then out to lunch with a…

I finally finished my presentation and sent it off. To say that a burden was lifted off my shoulders is an understatement. My mind is both exhausted, yet free, at least until the next encompassing demand takes root. We had…

It is Friday evening and I have been given a one day extension on my conference presentation. I changed my approach at the last minute and had to redo almost everything I was doing. One thing that made putting this…

As I grow older I find my ability to concentrate on multiple demands at the same diminishing and when I have something I absolutely have to do, it tends to overwhelm everything else. My wife has always joked with me…

Blogging Lent is turning out to be harder than I expected and I still have twenty seven more days and four Sundays to go. To use a sports analogy, this is like the first wall you hit in running long…

Lent is supposed to be about examining your walk with the Lord; asking God to show you what you might need to repent of and how you can better serve him. Sometimes I avoid looking at certain issues because they…

It’s Monday and President’s Day, so my wife is off work and home. One of her favorite things is rearranging some aspect of the house (why a house with lots of built-ins doesn’t work well for her). Today she is…