Painfully Hopeful

What I Live For…

Over the last week I’ve experienced two things which reinforced the fact that I’m actually called to this ministry – despite my constant feelings of being woefully inadequate. The first came when one person from our community stepped way out of her comfort-zone, stood up in front of a large crowd, and exercised her wonderful…

Star Wars Christmas Tree

Final Battle Originally uploaded by wezlo I get Star Wars ornaments every Christmas from family, and from members of Central. I have so many of these ornaments that we now use an old tree from my wife’s college days to display them all. Because nothing says, “Merry Christmas” like the Dark Lord of the Sith.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone. We had a fairly decent Christmas Eve worship last night (positive critiques aside – you’re helping to plan next year Mel!), after that we came home and crashed. We get a lot of invites from the various open houses that people host each Christmas eve, but we never go. Mostly because by…

Sometimes People Surprise Me

Well, yesterday we woke up to rain pelting our windows rather than gentle snow covering our lawn. I checked the temperature and found out that it was below freezing outside. The temperature didn’t match up with the preciipation that was hitting our windows so I opened our front door to see if my fears would…

I Pastor People Who are Nuts

Believe me, I mean that as a compliment! I got this drawing for Christmas from one of our members. She like drawing little ants in all sorts of odd places and having interesting conversations. In this particular drawing the ants are raiding a Christmas tree for supplies. It takes a strange sort of mind to…

Making Connections

In college I remember a conversation I had with a good friend (alas, Chuckles, where are you?) shortly before graduation. For some reason a group of us were talking about our first encounters with people we had become friends with and “Chuck” (her name was Charla, long story) said, “Oh man, I thought you were…