July 2016 – caminowalk2016

Half-Mast

For weeks now, flags have been flying at half-mast. It is a consistent reminder that there is much to grieve. It is like as a culture, we are all grieving, but because of the impact of multiple events one after another, we cannot finish grieving, so are left raw, and sometimes, desensitized. A good friend…

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Sunday was one of those incredible, long, rich, “walking on sacred turf” kind of days. The whole thing, the orchestration of events, the place of God in them, the opportunities, the ways I could look back and see how God led, and at the end of it, God put a title on it. The title…

The Trail

“Let’s not look ahead,” I wrote. Karen and I were texting about situations in our days, and my statement caught her. She wrote back a while later, “I have thought two or three times already about the suggestion… let’s not look ahead. So important.” Sometimes we want to try to know the trail of life…

Snowman

I remembered Saturday night that I had signed myself up for Sunday’s Children’s moment. And I remembered the snowman. Well, that’s what it had been. It was one of those towels that get pressed into a shape and then when immersed in water again become a towel. I had been carrying this snowman around for…