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It isn't anything like we expected. The RV park. The city. The lake. We thought we were headed for quaint and sleepy. We arrived at crumbling and supersonic. We're heading across Ontario toward Windsor, with the plan to cross back into the USA near Detroit. All the better to visit our dear friends in Michigan....
Over 400 years ago, back in the 1600's, Brother Lawrence served as a lay brother in a Carmelite monastery in Paris. It was there that he sought every day to practice being aware of -- and attentive to -- Your Presence, Lord. It was a journey of profound intimacy with You. This awareness and attentiveness...
I know a very smart man. In fact, the world measures his IQ at the "Genius" level. Meaning "exceptional -- unusual, remarkable -- intellectual power or ability. I often marvel at the vast array of data tidbits he can draw up from the well of his memory. I have joked -- in a "dead serious"...
There's really something to that expression... isn't there, Lord? "I heard myself." You have been pulling me forward toward The Future. Using the power of Vision to make this last season my best season. One of the ways You have been doing this is in my marriage. We have been married now for 27+ years....
I was "high" on You yesterday, Lord. But I am higher still today!!! This morning, we "scoped out" our friends' cottage some thirty minutes away from our RV campground. An isolated cottage in a vast pine forest... on a beautiful lake, down a driveway one kilometer long. If silence could be "deafening," we would both...
A long, long day. A long, long drive -- 463 miles! Now that we are here, in Canada, the trailer park's WiFi is as tired as we are. Almost no signal... and I'm sitting in our truck, in the dark. To get as close as I can to WiFi Central. So I must be brief....
They were a gift from a dear friend. A pair of earrings, handmade by some artist in her local town. Two tiny butterflies against a turquoise-colored disc, accented by a tiny pearl. My friend lives in another state, so we were not together for my birthday. When I saw her a month later, she surprised...
We pulled into a gas station yesterday. We had only fifty miles of fuel range left. This was the only diesel in town. Our last chance to avoid running out of fuel and being stranded. As we neared the pump, a guy ran up alongside our truck on the driver's side. We backed up a...
I looked outside the trailer this morning as we began our fellowship together, Lord. My first sight led to my first thought. EVERGREEN. A beautiful, tall evergreen tree, with its lowest boughs spreading out some 30 feet in diameter. Like a huge Christmas tree, right next to our trailer. So like You, Lord -- ever...
It is "pitch black" here in the country at night. No city lights. No street lights. No next door neighbor with house lights. Only thick, seemingly impenetrable darkness. Last night, I went out on our front deck before crawling into bed. It was so dark, I couldn't see my hand in front of my face....