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“You are a snowflake!”
“You are a boomer!”
If you ever heard one of these statements, I hope you realize they are insults. Insults to generations. Insults to children, parents and grandparents.
Continue reading Generations? Generation? Are You Listening? Getting It RightEarlier this week, I read the story of a young man and his wife who announced they were separating after 20 years of marriage. (Separation is not divorce, but who knows.) He also shared he was “not a Christian”.
I met this young man over 20 years ago. An up and coming author, soon to be church leader, he was engaging and real.
Continue reading Stop The Judgement! Love as you are lovedDarkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. MLK
A Thursday night. I had just come in for dinner. The table was set. The food was coming out. My dad was just walking away from the TV news. Walter Cronkite was just winding down when he received word of King’s wounding. Flustered he read the news but then a commercial break and it was only later that an anonymous voice announced his death. Continue reading An Apostle Of Non-Violence
Today is Christmas Eve (morning). I am looking forward to all it brings, including lots of kids and grandkids, as well as a friend or two.
This has been a monumental Christmas season. I lost my job a few weeks. It gave me plenty of time to be with family, make preparations and enjoy the time. Continue reading Christmas Eve Day
23 years ago Tina and I got up on a Saturday morning to prepare for a wedding. Our wedding. I slept in my store that night, woke up and headed to my friend’s house to make preparations for that day. My wife hung out with girlfriends and got ready. Continue reading Tina And I 23 Years Later!
As a child we learned a different way on some levels. I think part of my perspective as a child was predicated on asking the questions. Why? Where? What? I believe I was instructed and taught to look for answers. To be critical in my approach to things. Even skeptical. But to stop there would have been error. If I did not believe something, I wanted to prove my thinking. Continue reading What Is The Question?
Last night I had a dream where when I tried to speak strikes of lightning would appear. The lightning did not cause destruction. It changed things. They became brighter. Colors began to become vivid. Things that were old became new. I could see people become refreshed in the atmosphere where these bolts were.
Job 28:25-28
“When He imparted weight to the wind And meted out the waters by measure,When He set a limit for the rain And a course for the thunderbolt,Then He saw it and declared it; He established it and also searched it out.”And to man He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.'” Continue reading Lightning, Revelation And Rewards
Today is my sons birthday.
I will not forget the first time I held my son. I watched him come into this world in the hospital in New Hampshire. Tiny. Pink. A boy.
It was at that time I recognized that I had two daughters and now I had a son. I already had two daughters. But now I had a son. I saw very quickly that my life with my son would be different than that life that I had with my daughters. Continue reading Happy Birthday, Matthew Johndrow
“Jacob. What do you like best about vacation?”
“Family” replied my eight year old grandson.
For the first time since I was a child we had a family vacation. It consisted of two grandparents, five children and seven grandchildren. It took place on a lake in the middle of “Nowhere” New York. Somehow, some way we got everyone away at the same time to the same place. Continue reading Living Legacy – What Does That Mean?
Psalm 62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
My expectation. My expectation?
A few weeks ago a prophetic voice began to write me. His most recent interaction with me had to do with this thought. This is what he said to me. Continue reading What Is My High Expectation?
