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WEED
Do you smoke pot? You don’t have to answer that, but it seems that half the people I know do fairly regularly. I am not judging anyone. I smoked pot for years when I was young but got bored with it like I do with most things. Nor am I prudish about such things. […]
BEAUTY AND BARBED WIRE
UKRAINE
I was praying for Ukraine today. I was standing in the Ukrainian cemetery here in Phoenixville and thinking about the tensions in Europe and the burden felt by my neighbors here. Generations of Ukrainians have helped build this town. They came here in the 1800s to work in the steel mill. They have built […]
NAILER’S ROW
THE DAY MY HEAD EXPLODED
In July of 2009 something in my head exploded. I went out for a run early that morning. I came home and was finishing my workout in the basement when I felt something begin to tear inside my head. I gingerly walked upstairs and sat on our kitchen steps where my wife buzzed around […]
THERE WAS NO SILENT NIGHT
I know it is a beloved Christmas carol, and a beautiful hymn, like a lullaby to the son of God. But there was no silent night. I was present for the delivery of most of my children; there was nothing silent about any of them. Nor was there anything silent about that night in […]
HUSBANDS
When I was twenty-four years old I became a husband. People immediately began pushing marriage books at us. Someone even paid for us to go to a weekend marriage conference; Christians seem to like that stuff; it never meant anything to me. The information was overwhelming and never held my attention. They meant well, […]
PEACE
Do you have peace? If so, what does it look like? We often speak of being “at peace”, as if peace were a destination, a place of rest. If that is true, how do you get there? How do you leave behind the turmoil and anxiety that is so much a part of our […]
BEAUTY
Northern tip of the Chesapeake Bay. The beauty of it got me thinking… What purpose does it serve? Yet beauty is all around us, giving us pause. Making us wonder, stopping us in our tracks to catch our breath. Beauty calls to us, beckoning us into its presence. A presence we seem unable to gain. […]