• Getting Back to “Normal”

    Today I am exhausted.  Traveling across the country is pretty taxing.  I am trying to get back into the swing of things.  While I may be sitting in my office, my feet have not touched the ground.  Our visit to… Continue reading

  • And Let Us Not Forget the Memorial

    I am writing this about 36,000 feet in the air.  We are on our way back home and I have been thinking about the last 72 hours.  One of the many things that we did while we were in Manhattan… Continue reading

  • An Incredible Evening

    Tonight was one of those evenings that you wish never had to end.  The family and I were taken in a chauffeured limousine to the Ambassador Theater in NYC to watch the musical Chicago.  We were taken on a very… Continue reading

  • An Oldie and a Goodie

    Tonight my son and I went to see the musical “Les Miserables.”  It was wonderful to see and hear the music making while visiting New York.  To say the show is amazing is an understatement.  The man playing the role… Continue reading

  • A Brand New Favorite

    Tonight my wife, my oldest son, and I went to see the musical If/Then. To say it was incredibly amazing is an understatement. Very rarely does a musical delve as deeply into the human situation as this show did. I… Continue reading

  • We Are Here!

    Today I thank God for a very uneventful plane ride to New York City. I realized very quickly that, while I enjoy visiting Manhattan, my heart is really in New Mexico. I need the big open spaces that New York… Continue reading

  • The Crazy Space of Transition

    I am scurrying around trying to make sure that everything is done in preparation for tomorrow’s odyssey.  We leave from Albuquerque and flight through Houston, Atlanta, and then finally New York.  While I have my foot still here, I have… Continue reading

  • A Different Kind of Monday

    Monday is the strangest day of the week for me.  I kind of suffer a little let down after building up to wonderful services on Sunday.  I usually begin the ritual of closing the chapter of one celebration to look… Continue reading

  • Noah and the Rainbow

    (The text below is the sermon that I preached on Sunday morning, February 22, 2015 at Rio Rancho UMC.  I hope that the text reminds you to discover and follow your signs in life that lead to the Divine.) We… Continue reading

  • The Importance of Signs

    Tomorrow I am preaching on the story of God placing the rainbow in the heavens and his promise to Noah that the Almighty will never destroy the earth by flood again. I started out thinking that this was a nice… Continue reading