As a kid growing up I had the pleasure of walking to school. This isn’t one of those “I walked 15 miles uphill both ways” type of stories, but truthfully it was about a mile for me to walk to school. For the most part, I have happy and uneventful memories of walking to school. [...]
Now that I am feeling better, my schedule is again coming back to full swing. Today is busy with preparations for the weekend services and a final premarital session with a couple that is getting married next week.
Friday morning, I will be helping out at the Romeo Junior Open. This is a junior golf [...]
Matthew 5:16
There’s a lot about a person in a name.
My dad used to say “at the end of the day, the only thing someone can’t take away from you, is your name. Sometimes it’s all you’ve got.”
You can lose your pride, but not pride in your name. You can lose your money, but you can’t [...]
this is our chicago team with some children from ICI at Lincoln Park Zoo.
There are times for retreating and there are times for advancing. (If you’re in the military then you’ve heard that there are also times for waiting.) Well, these next few days are for advancing. I’ve got lots of work to do and it’s a pleasure to feel good enough to get back to work full [...]
For the last few days I haven’t felt like bogging. Not because I wasn’t full of self-worth or didn’t have ample amounts of worthless self-talk worth writing down, but mostly because I just got “in the funk.”
Avoidance is a thing I really wrestle with. If there’s something I don’t particularly want to do, even if [...]
Yesterday golf tournament was a disaster. To put it nicely, I’ve never played so poorly. I can’t think of another time where I had a complete inability to make good shots happen. In all reality, I had several very good shots. Three times I put an approach shot within 5 feet of the hole for [...]
There are some time that you can’t keep me away from my office. I am always here. This is not that time.
I am not feeling “into work” just right now. For obvious reasons, my brain is kind of checked out elsewhere. Not home or on anything truly “important” but on my stupid golf game. I’m [...]
