There is still a whole 24 hours of quiet to come. I really can’t believe it. The onslaught of this silence was so quick, so unexpected. It’s eerie… unwanted. Disturbing. And yet… glorious. ;-) The kids are at Grandma & Grandpa’s! They have been since Tuesday evening. The will be until tomorrow, probably around lunch…
Tag: Ian
Where Do You Apply Grace?
Lately due to many different factors, our children have been both extra tired, and definitely extra tiresome. They have been frustrating both Jen and me in various (mostly little) ways. Silly, childish things… but whether they are “just kids” or not, they are still frustrating. And after a build up of lots of small things……
Ian Jeffrey Campbell: God’s Gracious Gift
A Little Background…As we approached our first anniversary, life was a whirlwind of new things. Not only were we celebrating the first year of our marriage, we were also expecting our first baby! He was definitely planned, expected, and greatly anticipated. We were a bit surprised at how early he was coming into our family,…
Approaching One Thousand
Recently I have been monitoring my post count. The dashboard in Blogger tells me how many different posts I have published to my blog. Currently, I stand at 997, and this will be 998. That’s a lot of posts. Quite a fence that would make… ;-) Well I have been thinking about what would be…
Baseball Means Summer
I was looking out my window this morning, and the grass looked a little greener. I don’t mean figuratively. I mean, literally… it looked greener. The shadows were a bit different. The sun is moving into it’s summer position. The world outside just seemed a bit more “summery”. But the one indicator that summer is…
Three In One
This morning the boys were in my office to read the Bible, and we got talking about one particular line we read. Soon after this, Jesus was going through towns and villages, telling the good news about God’s kingdom. Luke 8:1 So many times we take the good news out of the “good news”! I…
… and Alex
I told the story a day or two ago about Alex saying that Ian was not his brother anymore, so I would like to balance it with this little anecdote… Ian was practicing his piano after lunch as I headed back up to the office. I stopped at the top of the stairs to leave…
More Hospital Visits
(Sorry, this is kind of old news by now, but it has been very busy in the office so far this week, catching up from a week missed. I meant to post it the day it happened, but never got to it. Hopefully the many-days-old version is fairly accurate still…) :-) Just Can’t Get Enough…Saturday…
Vacation
Some of you reading this know that we have been on vacation for the past week. Now, all of you reading this know that. :-) It was a very different vacation in that we did not know where we would be spending it even up to the eve of the first day of the week…