Bedrock Blessings

12/8/2025 Life is good. It's easy to not think of that. Days are full. Schedules are tight. There are more things to do than we can do. And even more things that we want to do but can't figure out how. Every new day brings new problems. Often new problems come quicker than we can keep up with. The schedule get's out of whack and the sink doesn't drain. It's always something. And yet our…
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Turning toward home

7/18/2025 We come from pioneer stock who turned their faces westward and set out to find homes and build new lives. For some reason that I don’t know, they stopped in what would eventually become Nacogdoches County, Texas. I wonder what they were looking for. What made them go when so many stayed? There were very very few people around then. What made them want to blend with the piney woods among the Nacogdoche Caddoan…
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Resolving the tension

7/17/2025 Ok, the tension is working itself out as I type. And I know that it will continue to work itself out over time again and again. I didn’t realize there was tension until a few days ago when Cru25 began. But now I realize that it has been there for several years. It probably started when we began the process of looking for a Base Camp for our family in 2019. It was time…
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