One of the best gifts in life is friendship. There is so much value in the face of a friend, who can look you in the eyes, and say “I love you just as you are.” There is beauty, simplicity, and grace in this gift. I have many such people it seems who do this,…
Category: family
Just Show Up
I arrived at the hospital parking lot later than I had hoped to get there. The situation was critical, I knew, indeed, it was life-threatening. I had been on the phone with this couple while en route. The woman predicted that I would get there in time. We had prayed then while on the phone. Jesus…
Slowing Down to a Stroll
You may not be able to tell from this picture, but neither Theo nor I had slept well the previous night. That previous day I had traveled from the coast to Smith Rock, about a 6-hour trip, with a few detours and rush hour traffic along the way, so the drive had taken me 9…
Silence…
For four Sundays I have been sharing out of my experience walking the Camino de Santiago de la Compostela. That is the journey which birthed this blog. I have already written about the days of that journey here, extensively, both in posting day-by-day reflections on the journey and in the ongoing posts birthed by that…
Don’t Commit Stupid
I sat in the middle seat near the front of the plane on a flight from Portland to Ontario in February. The man next to the window, dressed in a dark suit, with a purple shirt and blue and purple tie had his eyes closed and hands folded in his lap. He was not asleep,…
Discouragement and Hope
In the middle of a prayer time, January 23rd, the Lord spoke: “Son, I am FOR you. I love you. Sometimes you give in to the doubt of Moses (see Exodus 4) — that you are not good enough, strong enough, not eloquent enough. All about not measuring up. Yet you measure up to my…
This Camino
The reason my blog site is called Camino2016 is rooted in having walked that path then. However, walking that Camino taught me that all of life is a path, a Camino that we each are walking at our own paces. And these many Caminos encounter mishaps. One of these when we “run out of gas.” Now, on…
Dear Mom,
This post has taken me a long time to write. That’s telling really. You and I were a difficult puzzle. But I remember: We were sitting across the table from one another, at that Italian place for lunch, in Hemet, California. The year was 1989. I had just remembered the abuse, in the first flashback,…
Dear Dad,
Dear Dad, Yesterday your great grandson was born and he shares your name – Burton! When I read that Susanna and Collin had named him Gregory Burton, it struck me that, if you were still around, you’d be 96 this year, and you would have loved meeting him. When I heard his name, I began…
Jesus and $2.75
This came from a friend, Rebecca, who with her husband Brian was at Fred Meyer’s, a local department store recently. She shared this on Facebook and after reading it, I asked her if I could share it on this blog. She is a woman with a deep love for Jesus and a simple desire: to…
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