The Umbrella Over You

Move to sunny California, they say. It’s dry and hardly ever rains, they say. We are in a drought, they say. Whaaaaaaat?! Just a few miles from us – in the Santa Cruz Mountains – our good friends dealt with over 7 inches of rain. In one day! To our east, my wife had...

The Tree

There wasn’t a game I played more often as a kid than a good, old-fashioned game of tag. I never wanted to be “It.” I just wanted to run from whoever was.   It was exhilarating and exhausting to have someone on your heels in hot pursuit, so long as you didn’t get...

On Tuesday I will elect…

On Tuesday I will elect…to get up before my kids do, fix a cup of coffee, and settle in for quality time reading my Bible and praying. On Tuesday I will elect… to cast my ballot with a calm centeredness, resting in the truth that God is my King. On Tuesday I will...

When you can’t keep up

I crashed. I couldn’t keep up. I was giving it all I had, but it wasn’t enough. Just six months after our move to Silicon Valley, I had allowed my schedule to get out of hand. I was struggling to maintain commitments and relationships and life in general. I hadn’t...