http://www.treatsfortroops.com/ That link is the coolest thing! Take a risk, click it, and consider sponsoring a member of the military by sending a care package — could be a person state-side, in the reserves, in a military academy, deployed in support of the war on terror, or someone who’s been in the military for 15 […]

Well, I know it’s been a while. Let me quickly update abouthe foot. I saw the doc 2 weeks ago & she said it was ‘impressive’ that I was walking already. She cautiously gave me a longer leash for a 3 week separation between appts. And that was fine until about Thursday or Friday. The […]

Well, we’ve had a bit of a setback. There I was at work, walking around the Customer Service area w/o crutches as I had been doing. It was feeling good so I even made it to the last office around the corner & down the hall – about 35-40 steps one way – earlier that […]

She walked into the examination room last night. I sat in the chair like usual with my exposed foot sticking out for her to look at as she listened to my latest exploits in my pursuit of health and walking. But this time was different. She walked in and seemed taken aback by something. Something […]

I’m torn between the two, so here ya go! I’m ‘a nobody simply trying to exalt Somebody.’ (Jim Elliott) ‘Noone has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.’ (Oswald J. Smith) I just answered this Featured Question, you can answer it too!

I almost don’t know what to do! For the first time in 7 weeks since I’ve been back from vacation, I don’t have to go in early! I get to go in my normal (GASP!) time – 8am! I’m thankful for the abundant OT as bills have been getting paid off – what a huge […]

9/11. The day the sky was silent. No planes flew. For days. Many lost their lives. May the fervency those terrorists had for evil be the fervency we have in our hearts to share the gospel. Fervency rightly applied is passion. May our passion swell – for the Lord, for others, for sharing the gospel. The […]

Well, we worked hard all week and they freed someone up yesterday to help me check orders for a few hours and now I’m even staying even with the rest of the CS staff (they enter, I check — I joke about 4 against 1). So thanks to that boost I’m set up for a […]

Well…Tammy is OK after Felix’s visit. They just had a bunch of rain. Thanks so much to ‘Tammy’s Mom’ for sending a quick comment on the previous post, and I also got a quick email from Tammy. No word, yet, from Compassion on anything, so no news is good news in that regard. I know […]

Felix hit Honduras today. Angel (the middle child in my picture on the left) lives in San Pedro Sula up near hte coast, and Tammy (aka ‘Giggle Twin’ from our trip to Honduras) is a little closer to the center in Teguciagalpa. Any area could have trouble from torrential rain from a Cat 5. Compassion […]

The last month since I got back from vacation that’s been the speed of my life…we’ve not yet reached Mach 2 or 3…Mach 1 is wild enough! I thank God each day for the energy and provision. Week 1 after vacation: worked 50 hours, including my first Saturday 1/2 day in my career at this […]

There’s a reason they call vacation ‘vacation.’ The root word is ‘vacate.’ Leave. Abandon. Disregard. GET THE HECK OUT OF DODGE! And there’s a reason when you come back you wish you could go back: work. Now work is work because it’s work. Funny how that works! And I’ve been working since I […]

I’m sitting in the office of To Every Tribe Ministries plugging away. But I want to share the lesson I learned today. I’m a results-oriented person. I like to make things happen, or help them happen for others. There have been some circumstances that have slowed the progress of the projects I came to work […]

Sometimes you can be tired because you’ve been out too late doing things you probably shouldn’t be doing, or because you’ve decided you still want to be a college student & relive those all-nighters. Or you can be tired yet energized for doing the right work. That’s me right now. I’m sleeping very well. I’m […]

Hello! I write you from Los Fresnos, TX. I’m FINALLY on my trip! My foot prevented me from going over the border with the rest of the mission teams but I love what David, the ministry President, said: “isn’t it cool how God maimed you enough that you couldn’t go over yet healed you enough […]

What an INCREDIBLE weekend! We (Mom, all 3 of my brothers, my 3 nieces, and myself) converged on little old New Stanton, PA this weekend. We came from 3 different cities with one purpose – surprise my sister for her birthday this week. Beth (sister) knew Mom, Scott, and I were coming, but she didn’t […]

The phone rang last night after I got home. No big deal. We decided to answer it (usually the landline is busy with the computer and most calls are those annoying ‘computer calls’ so a lot of times we don’t answer – if someone needs us, they have our cell numbers). Anyway, it turned out […]

I like Gumby! You’ve heard of Gumby, haven’t you? The elastic-like rubber cartoon character that can be stretched & stretched & pulled & twisted & mangled and somehow never breaks or cracks & always returns to the original condition, still smiling and almost challenging you to try again? Well, I get to be Gumby! We […]

There’s an old song with a line ‘I’m walking on sunshine…and I feel good!” (or something like that). And I do. This past week Doc & I mutually decided that it’s best for me NOT to cross the border in late July with the mission trip team. I kind of knew that was coming and […]

The lines of a Mercy Me song give the simplest and most concrete perspective check I’ve ever had: “I am Yours regardless of/The dark clouds that may loom above/Because You are much greater than my pain/You who made a way for me/Suffering Your destiny/So tell me, what’s a little rain?/So I pray (chorus) Bring me […]