In a few minutes I’m going to be…gasp…disconnected from the internet while the cable guy ambling through our home begins the process of switching our system from one server to another. I’ll be back later today with another post but in the meantime, do me one little favor.
Read this post by John Shore.
In this crazy [...]

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I wish you all could have been at Peace Lutheran with D and I this last Sunday. It wasn’t the first time I ever thought that but this Sunday was special and here’s a little background as to why.
If the California Supreme Court ultimately decides to overturn Prop 8 (doubtful) and the 18,000 existing marriages [...]

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My beloved wife, best friend, and co-conspirator in mischief is at home in California while I’m in Oregon for a few days visiting my mom. I make this trip every six weeks or so and while I’m never gone for more than a few days at a time I start missing D before I’ve even [...]

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I went over to the city last week and by the city I mean theee city, San Francisco. When you say the city in the Bay area or in Central California for that matter, it’s basically an interchangeable term for San Francisco. No other details needed. And while I’m at it, it would be ever [...]

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I haven’t blogged since Easter Sunday as I’ve been in a perpetual state of napping for the past three days after all the Holy Week hoopla. It took Jesus three days to rise from the dead. It’s taken me three days longer to get off the couch. There’s a sad little commentary.
So for those of [...]

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It’s 3:25 a.m. on Easter morning and I’m wide awake. This time it wasn’t a cat strolling over my face or tapping Morse Code on my bladder that roused me from sleep but thoughts of the approaching day.
Easter morning. Church.
There’s so much to do.
I need to finish setting up the tables and putting out the [...]

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I returned just over an hour ago from church where D and I joined a small gathering of folks for the Easter Vigil worship; a quiet hour of readings, meditation, music and communion. There were candles and soft music and the nutty sweet fragrance of the bread filled the sanctuary and the chalice wine, for [...]

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Yesterday the cross. Tomorrow the empty grave.
Today, nothing but silence, nothing but stillness.
Yet in the silence and in the stillness, something unseen and unheard is happening.
That’s how it was then.
That’s how it is now.
Wait. Trust. Listen. Watch.
Shhhhhhhh….

May God’s silence be a blessing so our wandering thoughts can rest.
May God’s silence sustain us so we can [...]

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It was an odd sight. As D and I were driving through town this afternoon we saw a tightly-packed herd (Flock? Gaggle? Swarm? Colony? Litter?) of teenagers walking ahead on the sidewalk. From the backside they looked like ordinary enough kids but just as I was trying to compose some witty remark to dazzle the [...]

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I spent more than 40 years within the Christian church and had no idea there was such a thing as a Calendar of the Church Year. We celebrated Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost but there was little mention of the seasons of Lent and Advent. Ordinary Time? All Saints Day? Epiphany? Huh? And red, purple, green [...]

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