Tag: grace

The Last hoorah

.Reading time 13 minutes.

Yesterday was my father’s 84th birthday. Today is my parents 62nd wedding anniversary. This is the last celebration of both. They met senior year at Wheaton College outside of Chicago. They were engaged and married within a year. Football, seminary, farm churches, West Point. They lived an extraordinary life. There is something very powerful in […]

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2020 Vision in Hindsight

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Tomorrow is my 28th Birthday. Ok, ok. 42nd. But I feel 28. That counts for something. Considering how much coffee and wine I drink, I’m guessing I’m already at my half way point. That’s ok – I’ve lived more lives than a cat. An indoor cat. Do you ever do those quizzes where you list […]

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – It Always Snows in Lancaster

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Alexandria, Virginia.  9 am on a Sunday. Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. 2pm on a Sunday. Today I ran 2 races and checked off 2 states. I started with a 5k in VA. It was fine. I went home, downed a cup of coffee and half a loaf of gluten-free-sugar-free-flavor-free zucchini carrot bread, grabbed my little family and […]

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