TO THE HEALERS To the Healers.. the Nurses and Doctors and First Responders… and the chaplains and pastors .. and social workers and the people who clean the room when the patients have gone home… or gone HOME. To those who put their lives on the line every day… and have for the past two …
WHAT DO I ? (THE WISDOM OF AN ACTING EXERCISE) As actors, we use certain tools to flesh out a character and, hopefully, to make the character and the scene authentic. One of those tools is to ask four questions of the character: 1. What do they need? 2. What do they want? 3. …
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MARRIAGE SPATS and FIST PUMPS Jana and I had a marital spat this morning. Making some hard decisions. Disagreeing. You know, normal marital stuff. Normal human being stuff. We argued for a while. Accused each other. Didn’t own our own stuff. Acted like we were 12. Or 9. Or 7. Normal Human Stuff. Then… by …
A 7 year old boy is the first to greet me yesterday morning, shortly after I finish performing the Witnesses drama at the host church. He looks a little worked up. I am thinking maybe one of the more intense scenes in the drama scared him a little. Or maybe he has a new …
Jana and I have been sharing our story of her journey with Breast Cancer. We told it each of the last two weeks of Adult Camp here at Mount Carmel Ministries this past month. When we give the talk, it naturally causes many emotions to surface… both for us and for those listening. People …
So the other day I opened up my laptop, set it in front of my Dad, and started asking him questions. Questions that would invite him to tell the stories of his life. Here is the first one I will share with you. I realized a few seconds into filming it that this was going …
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I am a bit tired from a wonderful, but very full last couple of weeks. And I am tempted to think, “It’s Monday! I don’t want to get out of bed. I just want to sleep a bit more.” I may even be tempted to be a bit crabby. Then I think of my Dad. …
I just sent this verse to my daughter this morning, to help her with the increasing end-of-the-college-year stress and the final push to finals. Such a stressful time for college students. Perhaps you would like to share it with the college student in YOUR life in the weeks ahead as well. Here it is… …
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A THANK-YOU TO PASTORS AND ALL CHURCH STAFF… AT THE END OF HOLY WEEK, EASTER SUNDAY AFTERNOON! For every pastor who survived Holy Week, and to every church staff these words I now speak You DID it! You DID it! You’ve now crossed the line. You told the Great Story and I’ll bet you …
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50 Random Thoughts As I Approach A Half Century 1. Life experiences will be fickle and can be interpreted by emotion. People will be inconsistent. But one constant is this: God is good. 2. I always believed my parents were special. Not perfect. But special. At 50 I know it. 3. No one tells …
