It’s been a while, huh? I wanted to drop you all a quick note to let you know that I am alive and well. I have spent copious hours doing many things, including a whole lot of nothing . . . on purpose. Ha! The Bible says, “there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens . . .” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). I have enjoyed my season of choosing to offer my presence to those with whom I’m proximate more than I offer my posts to the World Wide Web. I can now Continue Reading
Posts and Presence
According to the dictionary, to be present is to be with one or others in a specified or understood place at a specified or understood time. During our nation's current pandemic, I am what is considered an "essential worker." As such, while many consider us “heroes,” no school, no playdates, no dinner at their favorite restaurants, the cancelled summer camps, and postponed piano recitals make my trips to work feel more like another cruel unwelcomed reality my young daughters have to deal Continue Reading
Which Is It?
Is this pandemic an expression of God’s wrath and judgment? Is this pandemic a sign that the end times are beginning? Or is this pandemic simply the fruit of a fallen and sinful world? I can understand these questions being asked. I mean ... which is it? In Exodus God brought plagues “to make [us] see [His] power.” In Deuteronomy, God said disobedience to the Mosaic Law among the Israelites would result in Him striking them with “wasting disease, with fever and inflammation...” Then the Continue Reading