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My 71 year-old Mom is traveling with my Dad to Afghanistan for a month-long mission to help the Afghans. I aspire to be a warrior at her age like she ...
I'm on vacation. Here's where we're going today. Let's have a contest, where in the world is this? (contest rules: you can't venture a guess if I've t...
Four Taylor University classmates of my children Seth and Estie were tragically killed last night as they returned to campus in a van. A Taylor emp...
I've got a pile of books on my night stand. It is growing into an unwieldy tower. Here are some: Meditations from the Road by M. Scott Peck C...
It’s time for a new journal. Fortuitously, the pages on the ’05 journal ended just as the year itself did. Rarely is life so tidy. Somewhere in th...
A 25th wedding anniversary comes along once in a lifetime. It is a cause for celebration. If I were to settle on a place, it would have spec...
My children have emptied the nest and are back for Christmas. There is more laughter in our house than ever before. Karen and I just pushed the pau...
When I was nine, my father left my family for a year to serve in the Viet Nam war. It was a sad day in our family when he left. We didn’t know if ...
Several years later, Jocelyn Woosely, a young lady who helped at the Gateway, was killed in a car accident in Mexico. The staff retreat that year was ...
