This Week’s Reflection – Fishing Trip

Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Dave in Dave's Blog, Reflections

Almost 40 years after the fact, I had a strong and encouraging lesson from my childhood a few weeks ago. The lesson was simply this: Dads (or granddads or uncles or friends) don’t take their young children fishing for the fishing. They take them out of love. I got to spend the first real time [...]

This Week’s Reflection – Paint Job

Posted on 22. Aug, 2010 by Dave in Dave's Blog, Reflections

Last week, Heidi and I had the opportunity to meet up with our friends Mark and Glenda who had just returned from spending two months on a mission trip serving in Haiti. Living in oppressively hot makeshift tents, eating emergency rations, dealing with hurting, angry, frustrated and struggling people requires a sense of faith and [...]

This Week’s Reflection – Last Minute Victory

Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by Dave in Dave's Blog, Reflections

Most of the game wasn’t that exciting, extremely hot and humid, but not exciting. It was one of those baseball games that was a bit hard to concentrate on because the home team seemed to always be giving up another run and played the entire game trailing the opposition. And except for the promise of [...]

This Week’s Reflection – Forgetting

Posted on 01. Aug, 2010 by Dave in Dave's Blog, Reflections

It’s really irritating but I’m forgetting things.  Probably a better description is that I’m misplacing things.  I know I’ve seen them, held them, planned for them, but then I lose them.  A check in the mail, a cord for my phone, a bill to be paid, a tool for a repair, one day where I [...]

This Week’s Reflection – Holy Spirit Holes

Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by Dave in Dave's Blog, Reflections

This week  in worship we talked about the miracle of Pentecost . . . the day when Jesus sent his Holy Spirit to his followers in the sound of a rushing wind, flames of fire and the mystery of multiple languages.  I told you about the way that Christians in the Middle Ages often celebrated [...]

This Week’s Reflection – Missed call

Posted on 28. Jun, 2010 by Dave in Dave's Blog, Reflections

Everyone agrees.  He missed the call.  The ump blew it.  He was just wrong.  Back on June 2nd, in a game between the Detroit Tigers and Los Angeles Dodgers, in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs, first base umpire Jim Joyce missed the call. There is nothing that unusual about that.  Umpires [...]

This Week’s Reflection – Remembered

Posted on 20. Jun, 2010 by Dave in Dave's Blog, Reflections

Happy Father’s Day to all the dad’s out there.  It’s a great day to say thank you to good and faithful dads.  It’s a good day to praise God for being our Heavenly Father that loves us even more deeply than any earthly father.  And it’s a good day for men, and especially dads to [...]

This Week’s Reflection – Network

Posted on 14. Jun, 2010 by Dave in Dave's Blog, Reflections

“How’s your network?”  If someone asked you that you would probably assume they were talking about your cell phone, or your computer system or maybe your group of social contacts.   Network makes me think of that commercial with a guy on the cell phone with hundreds of people standing behind him. Maybe its because I’ve [...]

This Week’s Reflection – Garage Sale

Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by Dave in Dave's Blog, Reflections

So this was Garage Sale weekend.  I’m not a huge fan of the infamous “garage sale” but am willing to admit they have their purpose.  At our house, the purpose was to begin to get rid of many of the “duplicates” that have appeared while combining households.  However, more than downsizing and a few extra [...]

Ceiling Fan – This Week’s Reflection

Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Dave in Dave's Blog, Reflections

So I finally got around to installing a new ceiling fan in our living room on Friday.  It was the typical ceiling fan installation project for me.  What should have taken about an hour and a half took three and a half hours.  That’s because the old fan was really heavy, the ceiling is 12 [...]

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