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Further Up and Further In
The redbuds in our neighbor’s ravine are blooming. Few things compare to the sight of the small trees. Some are barely visible above the underbrush. The still bare branches of the hardwoods - black walnuts, elms, maple and locust - hover over the little trees like...
Messing with God’s Palm Pilot
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. II Peter 3:9 In my personal opinion, the world would run more efficiently if God ran His plans by me before...
Time Capsule, 2009
Last Friday afternoon, I went to a reunion. Fourteen of my favorite people in the whole world came to the elementary school where we did fourth grade together. We gathered, a few weeks shy of their high school graduation, to open the time capsule they put together...
Snake Warning
Rest assured that this SNAKE WARNING is not meant to eclipse the swine flu pandemic. But I’m worried that the media’s narrow focus on all things pig and pork-related may have blinded us to a growing menace right beneath our central Iowa feet. Since Easter, the number...
Ah, Spring!
The fog pressed against the windows this morning, and I manufactured several reasons not to walk. They voices in my head ran the gambit from safety conscious, “The road’s so narrow and the fog’s so thick, I could get hit by a car,” to wimpy, “My hair will get wet,” to...
Our Boys Are Men
One of our favorite people in the whole world ate supper with us last night. Adrian, a Romanian foreign exchange student who lived with us for several months in 2001, was back in Iowa for a week before starting his new job in Singapore. He walked in the kitchen, and...