Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

//There’s a menacing building just behind our house; it’s kind of the neighborhood ‘no-go-zone’ because of all the scary things in there. You see, this building is my garage. I pretended to clean it last year, and was able to park my car in it for the better part of a week. I didn’t [...]

//The following is an excerpt from the afterword in Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home.
In four years and a half of traveling the globe, we found no strangers. We found people everywhere engaged in life, in love, in vocation, and in worship.
Curiosities abounded, but rather than focus on the curiosities of [...]

//This post is an excerpt from my book, Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home
Per citizen, the United States spends more than half again as much as any other country in the world on healthcare, yet maintains outcomes in the lowest third of the top fifty industrialized nations, according to the World Health Organization. Perhaps this [...]

//What is it with eyes?
I cannot believe I alone possess this fascination .
Eyes radiate the life of a simmering campfire,
penetrating and hypnotizing.
They inform us of pains,
or joys,
likely both and more.
Fears, mostly of others, and what we find ourselves capable of as a consequence of fear.
Angers possessed past expiration,
Tomorrow’s anxieties, arriving early, compound today’s,
Feelings fade or [...]

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The Dangling Goober

After floundering around in the Caribbean for a couple months, and continuing south to St. Vincent, Bequia, Tobago Cays, and Union Island, it’s time to move.
We’re finally free of Caribbean tourism.  We think about breaking up the passage to Panama with a stop, but the honeymoon memories Lorrie and I have of Aruba, [...]

This becomes a recurring theme: places are special because of the people there. We’re meeting many people in different places, but are yet to find one of the places where they don’t value human life like we do.

Public space, dwindling as it is and socialist by definition is a true asset of America.

//In yesterday’s post, I said I am proud to be an American.  I did not say it in some sort of “rah, rah, we’re the greatest,” context, and I find that context to be somewhat distasteful.  The truth is that we’ve been given more than anyplace else I know of.  It is a birthright current [...]

Another American curiosity was brought to our attention from people in every place we visited where it became a topic of discussion. “The Constitution of the United States of America is the greatest document ever written,”

//A recent sermon had our pastor talking about Aunt Edna. Aunt Edna was the preacher’s personification of that person dear to each of us, who baked cookies for the neighborhood kids, was a good person from all frames of human perspective, was undoubtedly a sinner like the rest of us, but who had never [...]