One of my favorite activities over the past two years has been to facilitate sessions of the Basic Lay Servant Class for new and mature Methodists in the Metro District of Milwaukee. We call that course Today’s Disciples, and it … Continue reading
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Maibandu, Are You Safe? I know Maibandu in my mind, and in her letters, But letters that are written with helping hands. I see, in little images, the long-past deaths– Father, Brothers, Play-palls–of Men and boys gone sooner than imagined. … Continue reading
Which Way Now? Follow me? Am I following in the right direction? Which way did he go? Which way do I go? Thinking about suffering, the way of the cross, I worry about me, worry about Him and … Continue reading
Friday night we had our first winter storm warning of the year for Milwaukee. The storm was less than expected. But after shoveling Friday night at the winter-time Cold Weather ministry where I help, we were watching the snow fall … Continue reading
I’m repeating this poem from 2010, because folks have responded positively to it, and there are new readers of this blog who may now read it.When I was on a Teen Serve mission trip with a group of teenagers in … Continue reading
I have been working through Psalm 119. Here are my first 16 stanzas assembled together. On Word, Law and Life Along the Way Aware, aware, finally aware that the righteous are blessed, those who stay close to the Lord, steeped … Continue reading
When I was young, did I even listen to me? Sometimes I heard and sometimes I listened to some, and sometimes to me. I heard and tucked far back, because it hurt to listen, to hear. And now in the … Continue reading
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