Daily life – Page 24 – Stepping Back

Is it wise to ask God why?

Reflections on my brother’s twenty-fifth birthday.

There was a faint moving pillar on the horizon as Jeff and I were driving into Iowa to spend some time biking on the Wabash Trace trail for the afternoon. The pillar was a murmuration of starlings drifting and flowing through the sky as fluidly as droplets of oil in water. It’s the sort ofContinue reading “Moments Noticed”

The Human Experience

Yesterday in a small restaurant in a small town in Iowa I asked for a banana split. When I did, the server smiled ear to ear, overjoyed that I had ordered it. “Yes! I can definitely make that for you!” she said. “Oh, and could I have hot fudge instead of the chocolate syrup?” HerContinue reading “The Human Experience”