Archive for the ‘Holiness’ Category

I’ve got a Lazy Boy chair.  I love it!  Nothing better than putting up my feet after a day’s work and settling into it’s comfy goodness. It’s a family tradition.  My dad has one too, and more often than not he can be found wrapped in it’s leathery embrace as he reads, meditates or watches [...]

Birds are Optimists

Posted: April 5, 2010 in Holiness, Prayer, Suffering

As I swish my way down the street (I love the sound of windbreaker pants – woosh, woosh, woosh), I tip my chin towards the rain and observe the honking formation overhead.  Here it is, early April, and there they are, heading north.  Don’t they know it could still snow yet? I’ve come to realize [...]

The Mousinator!

Posted: December 14, 2009 in Holiness

My dad was a hunter.  I can remember opening the garage door and seeing ghostly goose carcasses slung from ceiling rafters.  Eating wild duck for Christmas and hearing stories of how dad gave up shooting rabbits because if you didn’t kill them right away they cried like babies. He came by it naturally.  The fireplace [...]