The first time you come home after your dog dies is a hard moment. I never knew exactly how old Bentley was. I rescued him. Not from a shelter but from some people who obviously didn’t treat him [...]
How long has it been since you asked for something new? Growing up an Iowa farm boy, snow cones were a cold treat you enjoyed at the county fair. They described them as snow yet reality was the [...]
Have you ever done a good deed that appeared to go wrong? Maybe it didn’t. Maybe you just don’t know the whole story. When my girls and I first moved to Lubbock we made it our weekly mission to [...]
How do you know something is valuable to you? Last year about this time I was at Wal-Mart buying supplies for my classroom. Teachers do their “back to school” shopping, too. Some Pilot G-2 pens, [...]
I don’t like roller coasters. So much that I managed to avoid them for the first 30 years of my life, with no plans to break the streak. I’d heard one too many stories, true or not, of people [...]
On my way home from the 2018 Bahama Buck’s Sno Summit I stop at Tractor Supply to get some dog food. The automatic doors part and standing square in the middle is Ella, a 5-year old pixie in [...]
A couple days back one of my senior students talked with me about her post-high school plans. Talented and hard working, she’s been accepted to multiple colleges. “That’s great”, I told her, “You [...]
Are you in the middle of a hard season? Does it feel like you’re living with circumstances that have moved in, unpacked, and have no plans to leave? Take a moment to breathe. Now take a [...]
Ever look forward to a moment only to realize the moment isn’t what you thought it would be? May of 1999. The night of my graduation from Phoenix Seminary. I’d begun this journey in 1994. No one [...]
God can. So why doesn’t He? During my seminary years I had a cleaning business. All it took was one ad in the Mesa Tribune to get me started. “Thompson Cleaning Service. Trained by meticulous [...]
