I am convinced that hospitals are actually traps baited with your loved ones. They draw you in to go visit and inevitably you wind up wandering around, unable to find your way out, until the hospital has eventually worn you down so much that you sink into some uncomfortable chair in a random waiting room […]
Moving Right Along
One of the favorite movies of my childhood was “The Muppet Movie” of 1979. It featured the song “Moving Right Along” sung by Kermit, Fozzie, and the rest of the gang. It was a song about following your dreams to the future. Here at FWBC I want that to be our theme song for the […]
Settling, Not Settling
My family and I have been working hard on settling down in Ft. Wayne this week. Driver’s licenses, voter registration, tag, title, library card, and a dryer. Most but not all the boxes are unpacked. We’ve been here about three weeks and we are getting into our new lives. Lives we plan to live here […]
On Edge
I remember when my first daughter was born. Even though we induced, it took all day. All day and well into the night. Things don’t always go exactly as planned, but when we have faith and patience, we find that God is with us. His plans do not always, or even often, match up with […]
Homesick
Hebrews tells us that Abraham longed for a home he had not seen. In the final days of scrambling to get our house ready to sell and looking for one in Ft. Wayne, I am feeling an odd kind of homesickness for a place I have never lived. I already think of my place as […]