The best days of our lives

8/8/2025 School is getting ready to start on Tuesday for Macie, who is a freshman, and Trey, who is a seventh grader. Macie is one of the trainers for the Pleasanton athletic program. (Side note: Being a trainer isn’t very glamorous. Making sure players have enough water and taping their nasty ankles doesn’t get celebrated very much. Our celebrity culture doesn’t leave much room for cultural applause directed at those who serve. I don’t much…

Contentment

8/4/2025 Contentment... I like the sound of the word. It means that people are happy with what they have. Free to come or go, buy or sell . It means that people can take it or leave it. They are happy either way. Because what they have is just right.

Undone

7/19/2025 It’s hard to keep everything under control. It’s actually hard to keep anything under control. I could not keep my emotions under control yesterday as the images of countries with zero known followers of Christ drew tears out of my eyes and down my face. It took real effort to stay off the floor. But that’s how I feel. Like I want to find a cozy little hole in the ground and crawl into…