Sandee Hagen was one of the most courageous people I have ever known.
Sandee Hagen was one of the most courageous people I have ever known.
Our love, in the language of The Church, is a Reformation kind of love. By that I mean that falling in love not only challenged and changed us, but it continues to challenge us and change us.
Here’s a simple question: How do you throw a successful dinner party? Well, the answer is fairly straightforward: Have amazing friends. After that, the rest is easy. Good food helps, of course. Great food is even better. The key ingredient, however, is people, and around here we have the absolute best. The logistics of how Koinonia …
We’ve been dating now for 14,610 days. We’ve been married thirty-seven and a half of those forty years, but we’ve worked really hard to make sure that we never stopped dating
Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise! Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy! Let the trees of the forest sing for joy – Psalm 96 Where to begin? It turns out I had a lot more than a few …
if we are wise we also learn that time is comprised of a collection of moments, and it is in the moments that we actually live.
“And it was so. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” – Genesis 1:31 I’m not sure that wedding anniversaries can find a better venue than a beach house on the Emerald Isle. Add to that dinner at a …
stop, breathe, look around, drink in the simple goodness of this life – it’s necessary for each one of us if we are to successfully navigate all the absurdity that is the out of control world around us.
this life we live together is a moment-by-moment safari-like nothing-held-back adventure despite our best efforts to make it a Holland America cruise. This life together is – in the vernacular of 1970’s Disney – an E-ticket ride!
Friday evening Rebekah and I had tickets for the “Celtic Tenors” concert over at the Louisburg College Performing Arts Center. So we decided to make a “date night” of it, stopping for dinner at a Louisburg eatery on our way in. We may be married people but we haven’t forgotten how to date. There are …
