Minister Of Mocha

Tomorrow I am set to hit the road for a couple of weeks. I’ll be flying to the wonderful city of Portland for a week then flying to Orange County, Ca to attend Celebrate Recovery Summit. As I prepare to travel I have the usual mixture of excitement and sadness. I get to visit with…

This week we are spending time with a friend. After the shaking and quaking from a few weeks ago, a lot of us are still nervous. We have a friend who has a baby and Daddy is gone on travel for the week. We are staying at their house to let Mommy feel safe. Forever…

Today a truck arrived at the church and needed to be unloaded. There was only one person there to help. Obviously, this was not going to work out well, especially for that one guy! A few texts later we had a dozen or so people there to help. We made very short work of it…

People talk about other folks who are “down to earth”. I suppose it’s a good thing. It indicates humility and a relatability that is often desirable. This week, as I am sure you know by now, stuff in my home town had some serious #earthquake activity. #Ridgecrest was doing its thing this week and then…

I am. I live in #Ridgecrest, CA. That’s a place that people used to not know. Now, after a flurry of #earthquakes including a 7.1 on Friday evening people seem to know about my small desert community. Tonight I’m writing from my front lawn. The whole fam is sleeping out here including my 85 year…

Two weeks ago my mother was visiting my daughter in Utah and fell. After a week or so in a rehab facility the time came for her to come home. She had a broken sacrum, so flying was out. That meant that Bev and I took a road trip to go fetch her. It’s just…

As I write this I am sitting in front of the TV waiting to watch the US Women in the World Cup. I love soccer and it is always exciting to watch our Women’s team compete on the world stage. I’ve got my Tobin Heath jersey on and I’m all set to root for the…

Yesterday was Father’s Day. On the evening of Mother’s Day I was already planning how my special day would play out. As things go, I found myself sitting in an empty house on Father’s Day. One daughter lives in Hawaii, another lives in Utah, yet another was at Disneyland with her family. My wife was…

Sometimes the walk is lovely; birds sing, sun shines, the breeze blows. Sometimes though, I step in doo-doo! This past week I stepped in doo-doo. In the course of me doing what I thought was righteous and good, I wound up making an error in judgement that created a lot of extra work for a…

I’m writing this at a restaurant by the airport. Today my wife leaves for two weeks to visit her family in Nashville and I am staying home. It’s sad to say goodbye, but soon after she does she will get to say hello to the rest of the family. Goodbyes are never forever, there are…