Yikes… what a whirlwind. I just got back home after being in six States in two days. That’s what you get when you leave hours before daylight, in a snowstorm, and fly to NC and then to AL to pick up a car and drive it 830+ miles back to Detroit. That would have been [...]
After we dropped my daughter off at Lipscomb all those years ago I was unable to speak for hours. My heart was broken. I was broken. She was happy and we were doing the right thing, but daddy’s little princess was now far, far away from us in a land where people said things like [...]
When I am in a town to do a seminar or work with a church that wants to grow in grace, love, and number, I kill a lot of time in guitar shops. Any guitar store within thirty miles will likely get a visit from me. As I’ve been on a mission to replace two [...]
Following up on our favorite authors and TV shows: an interesting question was asked about which hero I would choose to save me were the… uh… bovine waste product about to impact the electric ventilator. Good question. Let’s say you can’t use “Jesus” but other Biblical characters, say “Elijah”, are acceptable. I would assume most [...]
Since we looked at books we read for fun, let’s look at TV this time. I think we are in the golden age of TV. After a long wasteland of non-funny sitcoms, unreal reality shows, and mutating crime shows (“coming this fall: CSI:Lafayette, Louisiana”) we have almost too many good shows. Some very good shows [...]
Can you name your top “just for fun” authors? No heavy tomes or posturing, please; just tell us what you read for fun. In no particular order, here’s who I read when I get to settle in with something guaranteed not to improve my mind. Barry Eisler — the Rain novels are dark, fascinating, and [...]
[if you have problems commenting on this blog or at patrickmead.net, please email me so I can alert the gurus who can fix it] Today is a pain day. About fifteen years ago they removed a good sized non-cancerous tumor from the bones in my face. In the process several nerves were damaged, a sinus [...]
Here are some short sayings of Columba, the saint who brought Christianity to Scotland, followed by one of his prayers. I plan to run several Celtic prayers — some formal and some the everyday, every moment prayers they were famous for — in the coming weeks. Columba’s Affirmation Alone with none but Thee, my God, [...]
Jesus didn’t think like the rest of us. Which one of us would have planned the salvation of the world the way he did: baby in a manger, not-quite-wed mother, backwater of Roman Empire, no army, etc? In his first public address, the Sermon on the Mount, he said that a strange assortment of people [...]