A Different Kind of Treasure

A Different Kind of Treasure

The sheer amount of stuff two people can accumulate in a few years is just flabbergasting. I know this because my wife and I have been married for just under three years now, and it recently fell to me to fit all of our earthly possessions into a moving truck....
The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

“Brilliant military strategist” are three words that have never been used to describe me, primarily because they would be a great big whopping lie. In Risk, my goal is to seize the territories with the coolest sounding names—which is why I will always...
Scars

Scars

So I have this really ugly scar sitting on the knuckle of my left ring finger. Like most scars, I acquired it unintentionally. A few years ago, I was digging a trench beside a brick walkway so we could bury the wire for an outdoor post light. Things were going pretty...
Prefacing the Ten: “Sh’ma Yis’ra’eil”

Prefacing the Ten: “Sh’ma Yis’ra’eil”

The curious thing about the Ten Commandments is that they don’t begin with a commandment. They begin with these words: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage” (Exodus 20:2). Some denominations...