Today, I began the work of mov­ing my office. After a year at Coop­ers Land­ing, I am mov­ing to The Heal­ing Gar­dens. Coop­ers Land­ing is a very nice, well equipped office build­ing where I have an office with wood pan­el­ing, a recep­tion­ist, wait­ing room and other ameni­ties. I have good rela­tion­ships with the recep­tion­ists and […]

I have been the con­vener of the Liv­able Fam­ily Income Action Group of West Michi­gan Call to Renewal for three years. This group is made up of reli­gious lead­ers, eco­nom­ics and busi­ness pro­fes­sors, and other com­mu­nity lead­ers includ­ing the pres­i­dent of the labor coun­cil. We have been work­ing to pass a Liv­able Fam­ily Income […]

We went to East Con­gre­ga­tional Church this morn­ing. We decided to walk since the weather was lovely. We were greeted by the pas­tor at the door and sev­eral other per­sons. The wor­ship was more for­mal, high church, tra­di­tional than I pre­fer, but my wife likes it that way. I found the wor­ship to be sat­is­fac­tory.
After […]

I just got back from doing the wed­ding of a nice young cou­ple. Even though I don’t know these per­sons well, it’s a plea­sure and a priv­i­lege to take part in such an impor­tant mile­stone in their lives. I often get a lit­tle choked up and emo­tional at wed­dings. I know how won­der­ful and exciting […]

What an excit­ing past cou­ple of days it has been. As part of my morn­ing med­i­ta­tion time, I draw a card from the Osho Zen Tarot to med­i­tate upon for the day. The past two morn­ings I drew Guid­ance which advised me to fol­low my inner guid­ance. I sure did.
Yes­ter­day, I decided to join East Congregational […]

Got some chicken legs, yams and veg­eta­bles in the oven cook­ing. Their smell fills the house. My wife is home tonight, and we can spend some qual­ity time together (she works sec­ond shift four days a week). It’s my son’s 22nd birth­day. He lives in Mon­tana and is doing well. Life is good. All these […]

Warm sum­mer breezes blow on this Michi­gan autumn night. Tem­per­a­tures in the upper 70s today. How pleas­ant. How beau­ti­ful. Yet on the way home today, I couldn’t buy gas. No elec­tric­ity at the sta­tion. I got home and couldn’t park my car in the garage. No elec­tric­ity for the power door opener. Wanted to read. […]

When I was a teenager, I had a radio in my bed­room on the sec­ond floor. I would close the door and sing along with the radio to my favorite songs. My father would tell me to keep it down. I kept on singing.
When I was in my twen­ties, I was in a devotional […]

Here’s an arti­cle in today’s Grand Rapids Press that reit­er­ates what I just wrote. Let the UN take over Iraq. Bring our troops home. ‘You won­der if we are doing the right thing’

I spoke to my son last night. He’s 21, going to be 22 in a few days. He’s liv­ing in Mis­soula, Mon­tana with his high school girl friend. They moved there after he got back from Egypt in Jan­u­ary. He was there for seven months with the Army National Guard. He was going to go […]