Holy Matrimony!

You Better Know What You're Doing!

A realization washes over me that we're never qualified to do what God calls us to do. That's the point, right?

Raising Children

Slugs, Haunted Houses, & Indecisive Children

It's bad enough having tenants that don't pay rent, it's even worse if they're the evil, metaphysical kind.

Getting Old

Getting Old & Being Mature About It

In your thirties you realize you're sitting on top of a sliding board called Time and your children are giving you a shove.

Being Cheap

Vision Oriented & Budget Limited

Washing laundry is something Janice does a lot, at least that's what I gather from the loud sighs and groans every time she picks up a laundry basket.

Raising Children

Gutter Gardens

Not that I'm opposed to gardening. Why just the other Saturday I was weeding my gutters.

Peppa Pig

Finding Peace Despite Quarantines & Peppa Pig

With any luck, our children will seem way more sophisticated than their parents. I guess that's what every parent hopes for, really.

Covid

Everything Is Canceled

Now I'm stuck in the same house with a woman who likes writing long lists of things for me to do.

God Worked Things Out

God, The Travel Agent

Getting a passport picture of a toddler is statistically harder than landing a man on the moon.

Zambia

Zambia, Elliot's Melon, Family Priorities, & More

How do you know when you're praying because you're living by faith or because you're doing stupid things and need help fixing them?

Traveling With Children

Over The River And Through The Woods...

It’s funny but when you move away from home it feels like everything should stay the same until you come back. It doesn’t.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving In The Most Redneck County In America

It takes a brave man to open a septic and I was questioning my credentials as I plopped a bucket and slowly unscrewed the lid.

Raising Children

New Apprentices, Dirty Toothbrushes, Nice Dentists

Janice shrieked, ran across the ceiling, and yanked the toothbrush out of Adi’s astonished hands.

Stories From My Youth

Delivering Bread With Herman & Huey

Body parts began falling off of us as we hiked. A knee would rattle off, a finger would work itself loose, a rib would jiggle free from its cage.

Colorblindness

Defective Crayons And A Change Of Plans

I decided to just be a mechanic. I might as well have leprosy.

Church Drama

The Church Search

We feel like Goldilocks finding a bowl of porridge. This church is a little too hot and that one is a little too cold.

Amish

Fence Jumper

An enterprising individual could bake some whoopie pies and then set them on a table beside the road with a sign "Feed Amish. $5."

Airplane Mechanics

Starting My Apprenticeship At MMS Aviation

A squawk is the sound a bird makes when something is wrong. It's also the sound a pilot makes when he complains about something.

Lectures From My High Horse

When God Calls You To Eat An Elephant

We're trying to achieve things but God's trying to teach us things.

Alaska

Traveling To Alaska With My Pregnant Wife In A Cheap RV

For many months after the trip Janice would shudder, moan, and curl up into the fetal position anytime anyone mentioned Alaska.