Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

This is TCS’s fourth question: What do you [most] regret? I assume he means “most” regret. I mean, I regret a lot of things in my life, which I think is pretty “normal.” (No?). And if I were to have the opportunity (which I don’t want, by the way) to live my life over, I’m [...]

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The very old traditional hymn, “We Gather Together” – both words and tune, in four part acapella harmony, no less* – has been in my mind and on my heart for the past several days and nights, playing over and over, with me singing along with it inside myself. *See Patrick Mead’s Grace Notes post [...]

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This is TCS’s third question: What is your proudest moment? This answer didn’t take me long at all. Although I have a lot of good memories and feelings about a lot of things in my life, including most of all how deeply spiritual each of my three children is, which I want to think is [...]

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TCS’s Second question: Where would you [most] like to visit that you have never been to before? I had to think about this one for a while, too, because I’ve reached the stage in my life where I no longer seek to be or think about being a great adventurer and explorer of the world [...]

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Although it seems like forever to me now, in many ways, TCS just asked me five questions a few days ago in a comment to “Statistically Speaking“. I intended to answer them last week, but you all know how life intervened in a very tragic way to prevent that. In a way that was good [...]

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Before you read any further here, scroll down and re-read Henri Nouwen’s quote in last Friday’s post. I have been living those two paragraphs to the extent of my being with everyone around me since late last Friday afternoon. That’s when Mike Rodener (see article here) was tragically killed in his neighbor’s yard while cutting [...]

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I don’t know how many of you who come by here to visit with me often take the time after you’ve read whatever new post is up to come back by and look at it again later to read all the comments that are made along, but if you haven’t been doing that, start doing [...]

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