Category: Personal
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Back to Posting!
Over the summer I was not able to post anything to this site due to some technical error in the site set up. My intention was to blog all summer long but I ended up renovating a house with my son in Greenville and spent most of my summer not on a computer. Now I…
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Octagons, Adoption & Marriage
My head is spinning both literally and figuratively. The former I won’t fully explain here but the latter is as one might expect due to these rather unusual days. If I turn the clock back almost two weeks it is astonishing to see the chain of events and honestly both humorous and frightening. I got…
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Generations and the value of family
It’s a notable day in my house, particularly in my mind. I am sitting next to a vintage Curious George plush toy (aka stuffed animal). It belonged to my brother who would be 49 years old today. He owned several of them as he was such a fan of Curious George. His original went with…
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Is This Election?
About a month before my younger brother passed away in the hospital of cardiac failure, he sent me the following message. “Someday I’ll know why God gave me a bum ticker (heart). I believe that in some weird way that I can’t see or have considered, it will be good.” My reply was that God is…
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Vacation & Mourning
While on a vacation with my wife last week, we learned the news that my former boss, Bishop Edward Salmon passed away following a battle with cancer. He was 82 at the time and lived a very full life, touching the lives and ministries of many people I know. Bishop Salmon served as the diocesan…
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She May Have Touched More Lives Than Anyone I’ve Met…
The break between Christmas and New Year’s is normally a bit of relaxing with family and celebrating the great things that God has done. This year was quite different in one respect. We attended a very moving funeral. We met Martha shortly after we moved to South Carolina and were immediately struck by her passion…
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Soul Refreshment
Three days spent in meetings from 9am to 9pm hardly seems like anyone’s idea of a good time. Yet a recent three days spent with the Young Anglicans Project was just that. It was good on so many levels. It was good to be with friends, good to be with faithful men and women who…
