Pushing open the narrow gate.
People interacting in various contexts and ways to slice/dice/look at us.
THE Book of all Books The definition of a “classic book” is twofold: the reader is changed by it with every reading; and as the reader changes and grows, the book speaks to him in his changed state. The Bible, as a living and active divisor, as diagnostic, as lamp, as hammer, and as revelation, … Continue reading Draw Near
One phrase we use in our household is “use your Bigness to serve.” I don’t remember how we came up with it, but it was probably a long time ago, when it became obvious that big kids would prefer to lord it over littler siblings rather than serve them. God’s Kingdom is rather upside-down, compared … Continue reading My Technicolor Journey: Using Your Bigness
During my formative years, I was heavily influenced by my quiet but steady entrepreneurial, straight-ticket-Republican, stock-market-watching grandfather whose bold wife killed bugs with her bare hands and knew no fear. She was dead set on naming my dad with an American name, partially ashamed of her own history as an orphan, but also driven by success and forward progress. I do not remember feeling different about other peoples, but was struck with the Hawaiian terms for white people: Haole, and the word for half: “hapa,” which was used for children who are half white and half Hawaiian, or really just those cute kids who you couldn’t really identify their ancestry by looking and listening. Continue reading My Technicolor Journey: Part 1
It was a Monday afternoon at the end of March and the Engineer said to me, “don’t you know the COO at Johnson Memorial?” Yup. I did. And I knew what he meant with that question (20 years of marriage tends to do that). Our family was finally feeling good after all of the children … Continue reading Beautiful Providence Amidst COVID-19
