Pastor's Quentin's Gardening Parables #1
So last week, I went gardening with Pastor Quentin. With my new van, I'm looking for a few extra dollars to help me at the gas pumps. Pastor Quentin hired me to help him with some yard work. The first...
View ArticleGenesis 4:7
Mostly Fiction... just so you don't freak out.So I came around the corner and found a girl in the alley being pecked at and eaten alive by a large black bird. As I ran closer to shoe the bird away, I...
View ArticleThe Piper Problem Part 1
Before I tell you my story, I would like you to understand something about me. It's hard for me to explain, and I'm not sure you would quite understand, but I'm not like everyone else. My family is a...
View ArticlePatience
Patience.I'm learning patience.There are a few things that I can control in my life and many things that I cannot.One of the things I can control is patience.Patience is longsuffering.Waiting without...
View ArticleI Tried.
The stars are out. I tried to count, but lost track after only a few.The sky is big. I tried to measure it with my hands, but my arms aren't long enough.The ground is so hard. I pushed against it and...
View ArticleThe Lobster and the Riverbed.
She was red like a rusted firetruck or an old farmhouse hidden in the shade by a large sycamore tree. The lobster climbed up the dried riverbank through the hot sun. She rested in the shade for a bit....
View ArticleBeing Sick is Driving me Crazy
I now have five heads, each one slightly larger, attached together in a train. I arrange each one on a pillow before I can sleep. My eyes are too many to close at once. They close in intervals counting...
View ArticleThe Power of a Pencil
"Do you see this pencil, Harvey?"Harvey peeked across the table, over the top of his papers. "Yes, Ned. I see the pencil.""It's interesting. Harvey. This is an interesting pencil." Ned rotated it...
View ArticleSleep is an elusive creature
Sleep is an elusive creature. When I find it, I always find it on my bed, under the blankets and on the pillow, but it's not always there. Sometimes, I lay in wait for it, and it doesn't come. Other...
View ArticleHabakkuk
So a dear friend suggested that I blog through a book of the Bible. I thought it was a great idea. Another friend of mine was talking about how great the book of Habakkuk is, so I thought I would try...
View ArticleHabakkuk 1:1
1 - The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.This simple title for this section describes that the problem Habakkuk saw weighed heavily on his heart. His heart was for the Lord and when someone's...
View ArticleHabakkuk 1:2-4
2 - O Lord, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear? Even cry out to You, "Violence!" and You will not save.3 - Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence...
View ArticleHabakkuk 1:5-11
5 - "Look among the nations and watch - be utterly astounded! For I will work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you.6 - For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter...
View ArticleHabakkuk 1:12-17
12 - Are You not from everlasting, O Lord, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, You have appointed them for judgement; O Rock, You have marked them for correction.13 - You are of purer eyes than to...
View ArticleHabakkuk 2:1
1 - I will stand my watch and set myself on a rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected.I love that Habakkuk waits for God's answer. He expects God to...
View ArticleHabakkuk 2:2
2 - Then the Lord answered me and said: "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets. That he may run who reads it.3 - For the vision is yet for a appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it...
View ArticleDo you think I need to write more?
Hi Wanda,Lately I haven't been making time to write to you. My girlfriend says I really need to write more because she says I have a wonderful gift for writing and lots of people love to read my...
View ArticleSo I done did got hitched
I know it's been awhile since anyone has heard from me. I got married and took off with my new wife on a wonderful honeymoon. I'm still on it. I'm writing this from Maui. I would say married life is...
View ArticleLeaving on a jet plane... you know the rest.
Today marks our last day in Hawaii. Please pray for our travels as we head back to the mainland. We are planning a slight detour on Saturday due to some bad news we received on the trip. Please pray...
View ArticleLate night for a good reason
I stayed up late tonight after Ashley went to bed. I spent the time working on a surprise for when she wakes up. While I was working, I put on a DVD that Josh and Sandra have called Life. It's a...
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