Minister Of Mocha

Friday was one of those days that I don’t necessarily relish. I could see in advance that things were not going to be pleasant for a bit. I even knew in advance and agreed to set some of the conditions that allowed for the unpleasantness. Yet still, with all this “foreknowledge”, I stormed into the…

Wait a minute…isn’t today November first? Yes. Yes it is. Last night we spent Halloween in Hawaii with our kids and grandkids. It was interesting. Usually I think of Halloween as the point at which the weather gets cold in Ridgecrest and last night I sat in shorts and a T-shirt at night. Hawaii…am I…

Last Friday my wife and I visited a Celebrate Recovery group so that she could share her testimony. It was a great experience. As she spoke we were literally about 10 miles from a volcanic eruption that was shooting lava 30-60 feet into the air. God was moving earth as Bev’s story was moving hearts.…

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,…