Browsing Category: Journal Pages

        I’m disking a field today.  It’s been a while since I’ve ran one.  I am finding it therapeutic—as work with good and observable results often can be.         The field I am working is covered in ruts.  It was a wet spring and, sometimes, you have to make the best go of a […]

               It’s one of those days when nothing happens, nothing but life.                My daughter’s volleyball season is ended.  It is freshman year and her first high school year is through.                 Six days rest, and basketball is next week.  She may play, or she may focus on volleyball alone.  She’s a freshman.  She’s growing […]

               My grandfather (Papa) turned ninety-three yesterday.                All my life, he’s always been there.  He took me fishing.  He took me hunting.  He came to my sports games when Granny told him they were going and that the farm work would have to wait.                Coming back to the farm, he was always there—helping […]

               “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 […]