The word is coming in to us from around the country these days: eight inches of snow in Chicago, a foot and a half in Michigan, so much snow in Las Vegas (Las Vegas!) that they had to close the airport. The snow was falling steadily during the Seahawks game in Seattle on Sunday; since […]
Read moreO Reader. Nothing but silence here of late. I apologize. This will, in fact, change. Tonight is the last big push as I put the finishing touches on my students’ final exam, and then it will be grading, grading, grading for me ’til Christmas come. No, I expect it won’t take me so very long. […]
Read moreO the deep, deep love of Jesus, vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me!Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy loveLeading onward, leading homeward to Thy glorious rest above! O the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His praise from shore to shore!How He loveth, ever […]
Read moreThis past week I found myself revisiting one of my favorite books, Frederick Buechner’s Godric. I’ve read it twice already, and was not disappointed to realize recently that Now would be an excellent time to use the book as an illustration in my classroom. My students and I are smack in the middle of the […]
Read moreIt was fine, of course, all fine. Bells ringing and students moving in and out of my classroom. The days pass this way and sometimes at the end of the week I can’t remember what we did two days ago. They are marvels, these students of mine: people in progress, suffering a pace of growth […]
Read moreTonight, to save myself from exhaustion (and how can you be exhausted, one might reasonably question, when you are not teaching, as your students are away on the camping trip you are supposed to be on? to which my answer can only be a guess: that the infection my body is fighting somewhere in the […]
Read moreMy students and I spent a portion of our class today examining a well-known story from Matthew’s gospel. I’m sure you know it: Jesus has spent the day with crowds and crowds of people, and at the end of it all, he needs to get away. He asks his disciples to take their small boat […]
Read moreTake these hands And lift them up For I have not the strength to praise You near enough See, I have nothing I have nothing without YouAnd take my voice and pour it out Let it sing the songs of mercy I have found For I have nothing I have nothing without YouAnd all my […]
Read moreI walked late into my Sunday school class last weekend, in time to find a roomful of over fifty people sharing, one by one, a highlight of their summer. As I sat listening to the brief and happy stories of various vacations, I mentally panned through the days that filled my last three months. So […]
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