Hearty Thanks

Thank you for all of the prayers that have ascended for my family the past few days. We found out Monday that E was pregnant. By Thursday, we found out she was in the midst of a miscarriage. The doc said that her progesterone level was low, and that many women suffer miscarriage due to [...]

The ABC’s of my MP3’s

Just needed to do a good, brainless post. Here’s a quick scan of my tunes:
A – Amazing Royal Crowns, “1965 G.T.O.”B – Big Sandy and His Fly Rite Boys, “Juiced”C – Carl Perkins, “Cat Clothes”D – Dale Watson, “Nashville Rash”E – Elvis, “Kentucky Rain”F – For Love Not Lisa, “Slip Slide Melting”G – Guana Batz, [...]

Deep Sadness and Hiatus

Yesterday my wife had a miscarriage. Needless to say, we are both deeply saddened.
As such, I am checking out for a few days. We envy your prayers.

Preschool Blessing

A pic of me in action, blessing our preschool prior to the beginning of the year.

Registered Users Only

Ok you jerks: thanks to all the spam comments, now just registered users can comment on the blog.
This shouldn’t impact any of the people who generally read the blog. I hope it does keep you internet parasites off the blog.

More on Renewing Worship

If confession is indeed good for the soul, then I must confess that there are times when I am uncharitable about some of the things afoot in the ELCA. This has especially been the case with the “Renewing Worship” materials that are being promulgated by those sitting in Chicago offices. I confess that I have [...]

High as a Kite

No, not that kind of high!!! I guess I should watch how I write in light of some of my confessions in the Social D post!
Today, I was blessed to administer the sacrament of Holy Baptism to a beautiful, 4 month old baby boy. It was just an amazing experience to know that this child [...]

I got tagged

Ok - I got tagged to participate. Follow the directions below if you want to play along.
I am hitting up the following:DerekDavidJonathon
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Overview: This post is a community experiment with two broad purposes. The first is to create publicly accessible data about bloggers’ personalities, which may have [...]

William Blake

I am ripping this off from Anastasia, who ripped it off from someone else. God bless the net!
You are William Blake! Wow. I’m impressed. Notonly are you a self-made artist and poet, butyou’ve suddenly become a very trendy guy tolike. It’s not that we doubt that you have allyour marbles, it’s just that we’re not [...]

Interesting Turn of Events at Eucharist

I make no bones about being a high church Lutheran. I don’t always even like the term Lutheran, as I prefer to think of myself as an exiled Catholic. This plays itself out both liturgically and theologically, as I do confess that I have some disagreements with the Confessions, particularly on the role of the [...]