The Day Grandma Died

Son Luke wrote this poem that I always refer to by the wrong name.

He wrote it as we drove across remote West Texas on I-10 returning from Mexico.

It tells of a day we floated down the Middle Fork in Illinois, catching fish on an August day.

One of the many creative things our kids have produced.

 

Telling Love In Dreams

The day

grandmother died

we went canoeing

on the winding river

that cuts banks

into the red dirt,

crumbling

through meadows.

Silently

sliding between

the shadow-rock

walls, the great blue

heron came close

overhead, sounding

like spirits falling.

I remember all of this

driving in the car

while you sleep

beside me.

Warrior

LifeChurch is in the second week of this huge series focused at men.  I see so many men just dissengaged…a waste.  Ironically they are typically swamped with problems. This quote which showed up on my wife’s whiteboard fits:

“Those who help plan the battle don’t battle the plan.”  

Statue of responsibility.

Quoted in “Good to Great” is this cornerstone quote from Viktor Frankl:

“Freedom is only part of the story and half the truth…That is why I recommended that the Statue of Liberty be supplanted by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”

Right on Vik!

No man is an island…John Donne

“Isolated islands we’re not.To make this thing called life work,We gotta lean and support.And relate and respond.And give and take.And confess and forgive.And reach out and embrace and rely.” 

Chuck Swindoll

I love this quote and I am experiencing it more now than ever.