Painfully Hopeful

When sermons go, “Bleck!”

This has been a tough week for my sermon-writing. Thursday I wrote my first draft on the passage for the week and didn’t feel right about it. I chewed on it overnight and decided to re-write it on Friday, and I absolutely hated it. I felt the kind of visceral, “This must never be seen…

February Spring, Day 2

On Thursday temperatures reached 72 degrees. On Friday they peaked at 76. This is my kind of week. After attempting to rewrite my sermon Friday morning 1 I switched to my 500mm lens and decided to take a stroll down by the river. I wore sandals, without socks, in February. It was high tide, so…

February Spring

Yesterday was February 23. That means we’re still in the midst of Winter. By this date a few years back I was ready to run away to the tropics because I was sick of ice and snow. In 2017, on the other hand, the temperature was 72 degrees. I know this isn’t necessarily a good…

Reminder

We all get annoyed with people. It’s inescapable. Rather than allowing that annoyance to stoke within us a sense of superiority and arrogance, however, we should remember we are people. People get as annoyed with us as we do of “them.”

Unpacking Something Happens

The story up to this point has been fun, but hasn’t answered a rather important question. Why is Will so special? Now we begin to see. The Last Debacle The Mark VI was Nobody’s first attempt to power a motored transport with an “Applied Imagination Battery.” Theoretically this battery could have lasted for several months…

Fiction Tuesday – Something Happens

Today’s blog continues my long-neglected satirical fantasy, In The Land of the Penny Gnomes Agent Other escorted the group off the train and loaded them on to some military-looking vehicles parked on a nearby dirt road. They’d been instructed to remain silent until they’d been properly loaded, which Nobody seemed to forget every sixth step….