This week while I’m on a brief sabbatical from blogging while tending to projects at home and church here are a few bits and pieces. . .
My favorite picks from the photographs I’ve taken over the past three years
Martin Luther’s Commentary on Galatians, one of the greatest glimpses on grace ever! Do yourself a huge [...]

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I spent four hours the other day shifting through and backing up nearly 10,000 digital images I’ve taken over the past couple years. I tend to snap a lot. One of the things I like most about taking photos is that it helps me notice the things I’d normally miss when I’m scurrying through my [...]

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Nearly every Christmas I bake between 12-25 gingerbread houses for the children at church to decorate. This year’s theme is Extreme Gingerbread Home Make-Over although I played briefly with the idea of Sugar Gone Wild. I also decided that this year I wanted to extend the invitation to include anyone in the church who wanted [...]

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Long before Ray Boltz there was Marsha Stevens. Many of you know the story. Marsha played a significant role in the early days of contemporary Christian music. She was a member of the Christian group Children of the Day and wrote the song, For Those Tears I Died. As the story goes, after coming out [...]

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You should never have gone into ministry. You should never have worked with children. What you’re doing right now makes all that you’ve taught those children over the years meaningless. This will completely destroy everything you’ve ever done in ministry.
I remember thinking at the time, some 12 years ago, “She’s so upset she doesn’t even [...]

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Wednesday
D and I were both working at home in the afternoon and decided to take a coffee break and drive up to Starbucks for a caffeine fix. I swear I’d take it direct in the veins if they offered it that way. “Would you like that espresso in a cup or IV drip?”  I was, [...]

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I hope you all had as nice a weekend as I did and those of you in storm territory are safe in home and body. I had intended to upload the photos and stories last night but was too pooped to post, and this morning I’m trying to get myself out the front door to [...]

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I’m being whisked away for a day of play with my sweetheart under the boardwalk but I’ll return on Sunday evening with photos from the morning’s Marriage Equality Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge as promised. In the meantime, here are a few weekend links to keep you trouble-makers out of trouble…if I even thought [...]

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Kelley over at A Wonderful Journey wrote a post yesterday that got me get weepy in Starbucks. I hate getting teary-eyed at Starbucks. The napkins make rotten tissues. My nose gets plugged, dulling the taste of my espresso. People look at me with puzzled expressions. More so than usual. But there you have it. On [...]

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On Saturday evening our friends Heather and Denise were married…again. D and I are ahead of them by one with a wedding count of 3 to 2 but who’s counting? I mean it’s not as if it’s a competition though if it were, we would obviously be the winners!
Anyway, though the girls did not request, [...]

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