Minister Of Mocha

So last week I was chuffed about having that extra seat on my flight back east. I figured I should continue the story this week. It would seem that one of the things I used my extra space for was to temporarily put my ear buds down. Not the case, mind you, just the buds.…

Mrs. MoM and I are flying to DC today for a Prison Fellowship conference. Be the thrifty folks we are, we got no frills tickets on Southwest. Boarding Group 8. Steerage. We boarded the plane and found our seats then waited as the last stragglers made their way down the ramp to the plane. I…

I have a conference scheduled in the near future. When I booked my original tickets I made a mistake and had to cancel then re-book. My calendar still has both flights listed. When I went to check the flight time I got myself confused because I had two sets of conflicting information. I had to…

Sometimes things don’t go the way I want. Sometimes, even if they do go the way I want, they don’t go as fast as I want them to go. It’s almost like I’m not really in charge of the world or something! I’ve heard it said that recovery happens at the speed of commitment. That’s…

It’s a Monday afternoon. I spent last week in bed with an unknown illness, but with definite “flu-like” symptoms. I took some tests to try and nail down the culprit, to no avail. Whatever it was was bad enough to keep me from posting a blog last week. It also made recording the podcast a…

No, not the “Tiny Boxes” song…different Weeds altogether! This morning I spent an hour clearing weeds from around the Messed Up Ministries Building. The building is still in a state of construction/renovation so we are not in it very often. As such, the weed situation has become a bit “tenuous”. In fact, I got a…

My brother was in an accident and his car was totaled. He’s not exactly rolling in cash and the accident left him and his family down to zero cars. The person who hit him had no insurance, so it’s not a great situation. We decided to gift them our old car. It’s got a lot…

I heard a beautiful metaphor from Pastor Daniel Fusco yesterday. Fusco is a very accomplished musician. He was talking about playing in an orchestra. Everyone has the sheet music in front of them. At some point, perhaps hundreds of years previously, a composer sat down and wrote out the music that they heard in their…