My Blog
Why Does My Breastplate Smell Like Chicken?
I didn’t have much of a childhood. It was more like a roadmap. My parents were urban gypsies. They were constantly moving: running from bill collectors, seeking something better, dragging us 4 kids along for the ride. My brother Jon claims he counted out 44 different...
If You’re Gonna Fight Some Dragons, You Need a Good Belt (or, Cinching up the Belt of Truth)
"Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness..." Ephesians 6:14 Back in high school, about a century ago, I had my life all planned out: finish high school, go to art school, become an illustrator for Disney, or...
“We Lost Track at 164 Fractures”
“Hi Sis. I just got off the phone with Barb. A car fell on Jon.” That’s not the phone call you expect when you’re on your way to a wedding. That’s the phone call that makes you forget how to breathe. I had just called my brother Jon the day before. Close in age,...
The Fortitude of Job
“Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. And he said: ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.’” Job...
“Look, Dad! Grandpa’s Naked!”
“And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father Noah and told his two brothers. But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they...
Why Didn’t You Die, Adam?
Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit And the LORD God commanded the man, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." Genesis 2:16-17 NKJV...