Browsing Category: Journal Pages

               “Coach, I read your book!” a little voice calls out to me during water break at practice.                I’m caught off-guard.                “You read my book!?” I answer back surprised.  “Where’d you find that?”                “In the library,” he answers simple.                “At your school?”                “Yeah.”                “Well, that is cool!”                I […]

        I believe a blessing is near.         Why?         Because the devil intervened, broke me from a state of peace toward anger and brach decision—one made in emotion and haste of moment denied discernment and time to pray.         But I prayed still.  Anger passed, and the […]

        I sit on the porch as the rain falls down.  Soft of the fall speeds and loudens as wave of stronger reaches; thunder high, no lightning flash, all hidden in the clouds; sound of the rain on lawn, on leaves and gravel road before; metallic strike to gutters above and patter run from […]

        I sit in the top row of bleachers watching our town’s third grade football team.  Owen’s team isn’t playing today, but he wanted to go to the field.  I brought a book (e-book) and read as, rather than watch the game, he plays with his friends that are there.           This is […]

GENEROSITY                “Do you want the rest of my cereal?” my youngest son asks.                “I do!” I answer.                Every meal, he always leaves a bite.  Every  meal, I gladly finish his plate.                We both know that it’s a game, that if he leaves a bite and I eat it, he is freed […]

               6:30, I wake my youngest son.  He is still in bed, eyes closed, and under sheets; but his mind is alert and moving.                “I’m writing a poem,” he tells me from his bed.                “That’s awesome!” I respond.                “I was writing it in my dream,” his eyes still closed.                “I’ll leave […]