A Longing and a Wishing – Part 1

"You are a boy," someone had said vaguely, so long ago, "but one day you will be a man and have wonderful memories. And strangely, you shall find they both comfort and haunt you. At a time when you will wish as much for yesterday as now you beg for tomorrow. "One day you will come to a question, of the life you have lived, that will begin very beautifully, but fade to a riddle." - Mike Gaddis, Turning for Home I am approaching 50 fast. Less than ten days and I'll be there. And then what? None of us…
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Situational Inheritance

Do you ever wonder, "How did I get here?" No, I don't mean on earth. That's simple enough. God formed us in our mother's womb... in about nine months.... yeah, that's not what I mean. I have been thinking about this idea of looking at where we are like a Situational Inheritance... It may seem simple to you. It seems simple to me, now. Looked at objectively, I can describe my life as of today pretty well. We are here... Here is Base Camp. Here is Will at Harding. Here is Ben at TJC. Here is Sadie at home but…
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Tomorrow.

I look up from my journal and follow Daisy's gaze out the window. The sun is just starting to set. The fields are empty as the last steer is gone the way of steers. Families will be happy at the dinner table as a result. A new batch of young stuff will be here in a month or so. Hopefully. the grass will be back by then and there won't be a need for much hay. It's been cold, but today is warm. Daisy needs a job to do. The armadillo family that lives in the woods back of the…
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