If Patience and Slowing Feels Painful

This carousel at the St. Louis zoo always makes me dizzy.  Not unlike how I feel in life.  Days rushing by like everything around this ride. Colors and lights blurring past me like the years that have passed since the carousel’s first use in the 1904 World’s Fair. Sometimes as the days, months and years pass I can […]

The Lord Gives and the Lord Takes Away

I was tired. The dishes weren’t done. My girl was looking sleepy and my boy was knee deep into a project. Both were sick.  From the looks of us, you’d never know that in five minutes we’d be trying to imitate Christ.  But it is Easter weekend and I didn’t want to miss the opportunities to reflect on our […]