Small group

Crossroads Community Church (my church) is launching a new small group class series in Feb. Pastor Rick Warren of Saddle Back Church is the author of the study. It’s called “40 Days of Community.” I can’t wait to get started.
When Susan and I first got involved with small group we did the first series [...]

BURRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Man it’s cold!
I thought about summer this morning as I was driving Kaitlynn to school. Waking up at 3 a.m. in mid August to go to work with the thermostat already near 80 degrees with 100 percent humidity. Ahhh, the good old days, the dog days of summer…………what dose that mean anyway, “dog days [...]

Happy New Year

I woke up early this morning; 2:10 a.m.
Don’t know why.
For some reason I couldn’t get back to sleep. I thought of the upcoming new year and the hope I have for it. I prayed for the change in leadership of our country that this new year will bring.
I reflected a bit on this [...]

Man Cave

Well, here I am sitting in the lowest spot in my house: “MY MAN CAVE” the basement. A few months ago, the girls and I made some shelves for extra storage for our basement. Simple really, just some OSB walls, with shelves attached. I have been using one corner of the basement as a place [...]

Eye To Eye With Buddy Guy

Last night Kyle and I drove up to Mount Pleasant Michigan for his birthday present. We went to see Buddy Guy and The Robert Cray Band live at the Soring Eagle Casino. Way cool!!! We had front row end seats left of center stage. Really good seats.
Robert Cray opened the show, and man what a [...]

So This Is Christams

There is something about Christmas that’s really not Christmas. No, not all the commercialism, and the retail business. I want to talk about the pain that comes with the Christmas season.
There are a lot of people who are going through the motions of celebrating the Christmas season this year the same as they have [...]

I Saw God Today

God put two special people in my life this week. Thursday I stopped at my barber after work for a haircut. As I was pulling into the parking lot, an older gentleman was going into the shop. I thought, “cool, only one old dude ahead of me, I won’t have to wait too long.” I [...]

Thanksgiving 1972

I’m Stuffed!
Turkey, dressing, giblet gravy. Did I mention the dressing?
Thanksgiving has always been a special time for me. When I was a little kid, my family and I would spend Thanksgiving in Tennessee. Wednesday night after school my house was a mad house! My dad and brother Gary would be running around grabbing [...]

Live Like I Am Dieing

A 53 year old man goes to the doctor. Aches, pains…normal “getting old” stuff. So he thought.
The pains persisted, and he goes back to the doctor for more tests, more evaluations…………..
A couple of days pass and the 53 year old man receives a phone call from the doctor to set up an appointment to discuss [...]

What time is it?

I had today off from work because it it election day. If you haven’t yet voted, go do it now. It’s important!!!
Anyway, I have today off so I got to sleep in till 6:30 this morning. COOL!!! I was served coffee in bed by my beautiful wife Susan, enjoyed waking up slowly instead of my [...]