My dad’s dad died last Friday. He was 89. Grandma and Grandpa had been married for almost 68 years, which in itself is a feat so rare today. He owned a garage and through it supported a family of 10 kids in Estevan, Saskatchewan (It’s a strong Roman Catholic family ;)). Ironically, I’m told, he was a lousy mechanic, not too unlike his grandson – but he liked “tinkering.” Sadly, I don’t have a great deal of memories with Grandpa,…
Cam turned 4 yesterday, which is crazy. The last 4 years have been probably the greatest of my life. Rhonda’s too, I think. He’s going to start school in the fall and so life will go in all sorts of new, predictably unpredictable directions. It’s an exciting time. I was reflecting back to when Cam was born–which is what you do on your kid’s birthday–before the incident in which there may or may not have been a fainting at…
I just came in the door after mowing through 18″ blades of grass and weeds in our yard. So fun. We’ve been out of town for the past 5 weeks and came home to an embarrassingly redneck-level unkempt yard. The weeds are what get me the most, though. Last summer I spent 8 hrs one Saturday and 3 hrs on Sunday digging out dandelion after dandelion from our front yard. I think I counted somewhere close to a thousand. And…
When I entered the Christian faith as a teen, I held some pretty wild concepts in my head. It is almost comical now – no it is comical – when I step back and look at what I believed and how those beliefs were shaped. We probably all do this, I think. It’s humbling, which is good and necessary for us. The Creationist movement was pretty instrumental in bringing me to some kind of legitimate Christian experience and so I…
I have this theory that as a 20-30 something evangelical with a fairly normal upbringing in a fairly nominal Christian home, having gone to a fairly normal evangelical college, and lived life thus far with fairly normal experiences by and large, I share a brand of faith that could be transferred to other 20-30 somethings with very minor modifications required. In other words, I suspect that most people share the beliefs, doubts, questions, passions, fears, and concerns that I have…