All posts by Thom
Just Another Day
One of the benefits of living in time is that tomorrow I can try again. Some things I have learned: Only God is wise. Sometimes people will communicate to me that something I have written was so true….so insightful…..so wise. On the other hand others have indicated with varying degrees of tact that perhaps I…
The Inner Life
I had a thought today that unnerved me. I took the thought and put it in a box with a promise to myself that I would think about it later. At the time of the thought I was busy thinking about something else. The preacher was preaching and it is my normal practice to pay…
‘Til We’re All God’s Children
To my favorite people: The crazy gringa, Uncle Silly and his bride, the two exotic princesses from opposite ends of the world, the old man, Uncle Pepe, and most importantly, my Farkel queen. It has always been my confident expectation that God exists. Much of my life has been in the metaphoric desert searching for…
Say the Name
I sat with a friend for a few minutes today who is a self-described “news junkie.” We talked briefly about the current state of affairs in North America. I think it’s fair to say that we are both amazed/discouraged by what people will do to satisfy whatever it is within them that is forever hungry,…
Don’t Overthink It
I’m supposed to be working on a different project right now, but my heart is somewhere else. This is what I’m learning. I have been directed to not judge anyone….ever. Passing judgement is not my role….my job….my mission….my burden. That’s not to say that I haven’t pointed a finger of condemnation or used what God…
There are No Ordinary Lives
When I was a younger man I had achieved the things that I had set out to do. I was a degreed college graduate. I was married to a wonderful woman. We had two beautiful children, a girl then a boy. Together my wife and I earned enough money to buy a new home and…
My Life Experience May Be Overrated
I think the end game has always been to strip away all of my hope….in myself, my resources, the wisdom of my life experience. They are my life lines attached to stakes in beach sand. My mindset has been that I have not lived the hard way to come out of the other side more…
Not My Job
I have children who I once thought had their own relationship with God. Long before I sat down to write this I understood that wasn’t true. My aunt once said that as a young person she had a drug problem. Apparently her parents, my grandparents “drug” her to church…every time the doors were open. My…
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
It was my opinion that he should have just done as I said and slept it off. As it turned out he crept through his bedroom window and leapt from the roof of the front porch onto the drought-baked ground of the front yard and did much damage to his foot. The doctor at the…
Eyes Squeezed Shut
I believe the goal, the final result of all this living is to become like Christ. As a much younger man I prayed and asked God to help me become a man like Jesus. I’m sure at the time I wasn’t focused on what the process would look like…..or feel like. My attention was directed…