Minister Of Mocha

I got into my local Starbucks earlier than usual this morning. Normally this means that there are plenty of seats. Not today. The place is quite crowded. Most of the seats are taken. More specifically, my seat is occupied by someone who looks nothing like me! The nerve of some people… Life isn’t always what…

I remember as a kid we used to play all sorts of a games that had disaster scenarios. We might be marooned on an island. We might be stuck under an avalanche. We might be crashing on a plane. Whatever it was that we dreamed up, someone would grab an imaginary microphone and start calling…

I got up early on Monday morning. 5 am, to be exact. This is not a time that I tend to have my eyes open, but today I was headed out on a road trip. 14 hours of driving time got me from Southern California to Portland, Oregon. I spend most of those hours focusing…

Sunday was a day that’s been three years in the making. When my mother in law passed during COVID lockdown we were not able to have a traditional memorial service. Now that she has been reunited with her groom of over 70 years we were able to do a combined service for them both. There…

I used to listen to Jim Croce a lot. One of his most famous songs was Photographs and Memories. It’s s pretty song about looking back on a past relationship. This past week has been spent going through the things that my in-laws left behind. There are clothes, dishes, several containers of odd nuts and…

I use the word good without really thinking about it very much. This week is Easter Week, which means we have Good Friday. That always caused my brain to hurt as a kid. We see all of the drama of the Passion leading in to the crucifixion of Jesus. As a child I couldn’t figure…

This week I’m doing a blitz of Hope Events for Prison Fellowship. We will be visiting three different prisons this week sharing the hope of Christ. It is an amazing thing to see grown men, tattooed from head to toe, openly crying. Jesus is an awesome God to follow. He has lead me to so…

As I was walking in to my friendly neighborhood Starbucks this morning, the song that was drifting across the parking lot was The Weight by The Band. It’s one of those songs that you probably think that you don’t know, but you have probably heard. The lyric that catches everyone’s attention is in the chorus…

Like most of you, I spend a fair amount of time looking at pictures and posts from friends on various social media sights. I enjoy keeping up with what is happening with my people around the country. This morning I saw that a friend had their daughter visiting for spring break. the smiles on their…

Last week we escaped the Great So Cal Blizzard of ’23 to go to Sunny Hawaii. As it happens, Sunny Hawaii also took a break and escaped to parts unknown. For a solid week we had rain and cloudy days, with nary a glimpse of the sun. Then this weekend everything changed. I woke up…