Month: January 2010

One of the highlights of our recent vacation was our visit to my brother Michael’s home. On one wall of his living room, Mike has pictures of family ancestors, his family on one side and his wife, Mary Ann’s, family on the other. It’s a […]

Rosemary and I wrapped up our vacation trip to Houston with a great ride home. We had good conversation and Rosemary shared with me from a book she has been reading. Moments of intimacy are the greatest blessing of a relationship. We have known each […]

We’ve decided to leave Houston a day early in order to escape the approaching winter storm. We know it will probably add up to little more than really cold weather, but the thought of combining Texas and Louisiana drivers with potentially icy conditions is sending […]

I amaze myself at what I don’t know. We came to Houston for the week because we believed we were familiar with it. Not so. We drove around the downtown yesterday and I commented that the recession had hit Houston hard. There was hardly anyone […]

I am at the Borders at the Galleria in Houston, Texas. How and why I am here is the subject of today’s Nick’s Walk. Rosemary and I are on “vacation.”We decided to take a few days alone after a hectric Christmas season. The plan was […]

How often do we get past the joy of salvation (What He did for us.) and into the complexity of relationship (Who He is.)? As a species we are generally not good at relationships. When someone asks us about another, “Who is that?” We generally […]

It is a fine to say that we want to live a life based on trusting God; that we want Him as our pilot. Oswald Chambers asks “Will you go out without knowing?” Do we have the courage to step out each morning without a […]

Yesterday I was listening to the first couple of chapters of John Bevere’s Extraordinary. We will be doing that study on Sunday nights beginning in a couple of weeks. Bevere begins with an Extraordinary but simple point. We can do nothing to make God love […]