The Blog: Voices from the road

Dear friend, I bring you stories from my back road travels; looking for God in the imperfections, the messy, and the real of life. I share my own experiences in hopes that you can catch a glimpse of yourself in them, and know that even when life gets hard, you’re not alone.

Steps to Transformation

I have found as I have aged that my calling is to help others with transformation. There are many aspects of transformation and… there are many areas of life that can be transformed. But in truth, I love seeing others embrace the challenge and art of becoming the person they

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Thankful for Memory and Magic.

I took a little time with Elizabeth to go back over this last year and ‘thank God’ for all He did and got us through and all He blessed us with. In doing this one of the things that occurred was my eyes fell on a favorite photo of mine

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Flowers for Algernon

If there has been anything that I have written, other then the humorous things that brought you a little smile of self recognition, yes, I know some of you can be as ridiculous as I have been at times – this to me is possibly one of the most important

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Who Really Loses

I have been reminded over and over the last few months that Division sells more than Freedom in the world of lowest possible thinking. Those who read my stuff, My mom and Elizabeth, (:-) ) know I don’t hang on the media much anymore. My take is…it’s a show, with

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Erosion

Not long ago I had to drive down east for business and personal reasons. One trip was to drive from Raleigh to Hatteras, on the outer banks and back in one day to pick up something for my son. The other trip was to take my boss down Bentonville for

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The Life, legend and death of Peggy Sue

Tales from the Road Series ‘Back in the day’ before I was married, I had taken a job as a full time pastor south of Raleigh. I ended up renting a 80-year-old farmhouse in Garner, off Mechanical Blvd. It was 10 acres surrounded by Oak and walnut trees. Fully furnished

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Water, Sea Breeze and Elizabeth

The Journey continues… You would think, after the name of my blog and how I process life that ‘understanding’ the Journey would be my point with my writings, musings, etc. but at least, in my honesty, my readers see I can get lost in the pain of the moment and

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Through And Not Around

In my opinion we all go through levels of ‘dark’ or challenging times. It is one of the great equalizers of life. When these dark days come, it’s easy to get lost in the dread and gloom of it all. It’s much like a dead in black and white road

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Still Looking…

November 20th of this year Haven is 20 years old. Some of you know my daughter passed away years ago, some of you don’t however, I always take this time of year to ‘reflect’ on the changes of the tides in my life and try to ‘learn’ from what has

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Books:

Shattered Glass

When life breaks us, we all need to find handholds and I choose to believe that Christ was and is intimately involved with what occurred. I see that Christ is the ‘Hope of Glory’, Colossians 1:27 and it’s that Hope that is offered to all. That Hope is the foundation of what got me to this point in life.

I pray God uses this tiny, little piece of Shattered Glass from my life to help you find the Hope he offers to you.

The Day I Learned To Fly

Eight year old Jeff’s imagination isn’t earth bound. He dreams of flying over his neighborhood, free from the bonds of gravity – becoming part of the elite list of eight year olds who have flown.

When he and his brothers begin building a homemade go kart, he leaps on this opportunity to use his ingenuity, and make his dreams real!