Go West {not so} Young {wo} Man!
In a little over 48 hours, I'll be strapped into our rented "Adventuremobile," next to my girl, Mary R Snyder, heading toward our first stop on the Great Girlfriend Adventure. I've been the Head of Receiving for this operation, with a nice stock-pile of all manner of GGA supplies, books and prizes (there's some great stuff in there - you're going to want to follow along!). There has been copious planning, most especially on Mary's end, resulting in impressive color-coded spread sheets of events, pit stops, lodging, etc. A packing list has been checked and rechecked, and I feel quite certain that it will get another couple or twenty glances over the next two days. I think we are as ready as...
Meeting Together
In the midst of road trip errands (one week from today!), I had lunch yesterday with a darling friend whom the Lord plopped into my lap last year. We met every week for several months, then things started getting even crazier than normal in my world, and I had to stop the regularity of our meetings. What I thought would just be a month, or so, ended up with my not seeing her at all since January. As I've mentioned before, I have also been in this season of pulling away, and while I wasn't intentionally pulling away from that relationship, my circumstances took over and became an easy hiding place. After lunch, I marveled at how good and uplifted I felt. Certainly, we've sent texts,...
The Thigh-bone’s Connected to the…what?
Do you remember that song? The thigh-bone's connected to the hip-bone... Since my confession to living a solitary life in a pit of quick-sand, I've had numerous messages and texts from others in the same sandy boat, in addition to the ones who left comments to the post. I was as surprised at who related to my situation, as they were that I was in it! Most all of them felt distanced from God in their isolation, just like me, and that got me thinking. Why should my relationship with God be so affected by my pulling back from other people? I launched a little search for an answer. Here's the first place I landed: In this way we are like the various parts of a human body. Each part gets...
The Long and Winding Road
Two weeks from today, I will drive to the airport in a rented car to pick up my friend, Mary Snyder, and set out for Route 66 on the Great Girlfriend Adventure. What started as a crazy conversation about our shared love for the Americana and romance of yesteryear's road travel, ended up becoming a real roadtrip of gargantuan proportion! I still can't believe we really get to do it! Behind the scenes of road trip planning, my own life's road has taken some pretty crazy turns. We decided to pursue a long-time dream, sold our house and bought an updated 80's ranch house on 30 acres to start an equine therapy non-profit. While the move was certainly our choice, and the source of a lot of...
Mimmie’s Heart: Letters to Lilli #3
My darling Lilli…when you get to be as old as your Mimmie, you might start to realize there are things you wish you’d said more intentionally to your own kids, a long time ago; or, at the very least, had just said them better. I heard once that grandchildren can be a kind of “do-over.” I don’t agree with that entirely, for you are not mine to raise, day in and day out. However, because I am removed from the constancy of your daily care, I think those things that need saying can rise more easily, and with greater clarity, to the top of my heart. It’s my hope that this letter (and the ones to follow in years to come) will help make your life’s road a little easier to travel. "Is Baby...