Minister Of Mocha

Sitting in my daughter’s living room, listening to the sounds of my 7 month old grandson, on my wife’s birthday, IN HAWAII and I’m wondering what to write about… It’s not always going to be like this. We are going to have to go back home in two weeks. The grandsons will stay here. Life…

Yesterday was a hoot. We got to go to Disneyland with our 2 1/2 year old granddaughter for her very first time there. If you’ve never had the joy of taking a kid to the Magic Kingdom for the first time, you have truly missed out on one of the best things ever. The looks…

This past weekend I had the opportunity to run into an old friend that I hadn’t seen in the better part of a year or more. I was getting ready for my regular Friday night group and reviewing my notes for my lesson. As I read through them I noticed that I quoted someone that…

A few weeks back my wife made a comment about the blog. She said that perhaps I was writing about soccer too much. Her thought was that not everyone shares my enthusiasm for the Beautiful Game. Noted… At that point I was wallowing in the misery of our worst start in team history. English soccer…

We had a special business meeting yesterday at my church. There are very few things that we vote on, but among that small number of things is loan encumbrance. With rising costs of materials we needed to change some things with the building loan, so a meeting of the membership was required. The pastor and…

My friend Dan is glad to be in the hospital right now. He’s been there for almost one week, and yes, he’s happy that he has had to be in the ICU for the better part of a week. Last Monday his wife got the call we’ve been waiting for: a liver donor had been…

This week was a “good news, bad news, good news” kind of week. I was supposed to be going to Hawaii next month to visit the grandkids again. That’s good news. Then Friday I got an email saying our flight had been cancelled. Bad news. There was no indication as to why it was cancelled,…

Last week I was planning to leave Portland and make a quick overnight stay at my daughter’s house on the way home. We would get to see our 2.5 year old and our new 6 week old grand kids again. It was great. Then we found out more news: our son in law was planning…

Yesterday was a pretty big day for your MoM. I got my ministerial license at Redemption Church in Oregon City. It was an emotionally and spiritually rewarding experience. There’s a big difference between ordination and licensing. I’m not the “Right Reverend” Minister of Mocha or anything like that. What licensing means is that I have…

They say you don’t want to see how sausage gets made. The idea being that over the years people have been rumored to put some pretty unsavory things into sausage. Yes, even savory sausage! This week I broke the proverbial rule and watched sausage get made. I actually went beyond watching and actually made my…