I hope you find encouragement through these stories.
The Builder
My friend went to be with Jesus this week. He will be sorely missed. I first met Eric in college. We fast became kindred brothers. He built his first house while in high school. Think about that. Who builds a house when in high school? In college he studied to work in Logistics/Transportation and graduated…
The Captain of Safe Harbor
We all need emotional safety. It is a basic human need. There have been friends in life who have been that safe harbor for me. I have written about several of them on this website and you know those stories if you’ve been following my blog postings: The Runner The Mentor The Coach The Humble…
My Dad the Mechanic
My absolute earliest memory of my dad would be of him working on cars in our garage in Louisville Kentucky. I would have been somewhere between 4 and 8 years old. My best early childhood friend Brennan and I would play army in the backyard. We had a ditch where water ran through it and…
The Runner
The first time I met Danny was on a 12 mile training run with the high school cross country team in the mountains of East Tennessee. Dry Creek Road….7 miles up, over the top and 5 miles down. To say that it was a tough run would be an understatement. I believe it was my…
The Coach
John was a Giant of a Man There are people in life who draw people to themselves. They are naturally born to lead. Some are coaches. Some are quarterbacks. Some are great managers. Some are teachers. These people are naturally great at encouraging others to be their best, to be comfortable with themselves. John had…
Angels Pass Through Our Lives
Her name was Judy Heroes pass through our lives. May we be lucky enough to know them and to recognize their heroics when they happen. Sometimes they show themselves through ordinary people…heroes who have doubts and fears just like us. Many years have past….literally decades since I was a college undergraduate student. And somehow I…
The Humble Shepherd
I miss my friend and humble Shepherd. Don’t really remember how I met German. I guess our Church had a partnership with his Church and so I volunteered to get involved. Seems like it was a work day at the Church he and Margaret, his wife, founded. I was impressed by his gentle spirit…
Humility – Wisdom in Gentleness
Wish I could tell you how I met Mark. He was my neighbor and is my good friend. Seems like I have known him for the better part of 25 years. He was the neighbor and good friend I always knew I could count on. You know the guy when something breaks you call him…
The Mentor
My freshman year of college is a tale of two stories. The first half of the year is a story of the struggle to figure out who I would be. The second half is the story of who I would become. In my family my sisters and I were the first generation to go to…
The table waits..Called, Pursued, Loved of God
I lived in Vienna, Austria after following a calling on my life long before I knew the calling existed. (Side note: picture on this post is Siena, Italy with my bride this past year.) In college I partook of my first mission trip in Belgium, France and England. The experience of living full out, flung…
The Goodness of God
Following the call…..matters. My first mission trip was with Operation Mobilization to France and then InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to England. The trip started off in Sarnia Ontario where we spent a brief two days getting oriented and a dedication service. During the service at a local church the window was open, a bee flew in…
Well done good and faithful servant
Well done good and faithful one John was a friend to many. He loved people. He knew his life’s purpose and he lived it out. He married his soulmate and it was obvious to all who knew them. John knew Jesus and walked with Him. His Calling was to pour his days into international students…
Love your wife well
We were all single back in the day and like most people sometime in our mid to late twenties we got married. In an earlier chapter I referenced the babysitting Co-Op. There were probably 12 to 15 families that participated over time. Jim and Jennifer were one of those couples. They had one son who…
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