2024 Reads: Wounded Pastors by Carol Howard Merritt 📚

Short and practical.. can see it being useful to almost all pastors and those in ministry.

After 28 months of an Iowa living experiment, we loaded my mother-in-law’s stuff into a trailer today for her to move back to North Carolina. Big transitions get harder, I think, the older you get. We’ll miss her, but hope she’ll be much happier back in NC.

2024 Reads: The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes 📚

This went from middling espionage thriller to “WTF is this even?” in about 20 pages. Weird.

Yesterday I went through the final interview step for an internal role change that would be a significant career move. I think it went well. Now I wait for 6 weeks to find out. A little annoyed that it takes so long, but mostly glad to have that done with.

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.

Woke up this morning to a notification that the first leg of our afternoon flight home from New York to Iowa was already delayed.

Blessedly, we were able to move to an earlier flight, and assuming the plane we’ve just boarded in Chicago gets out, we’ll get home earlier than originally scheduled. 👍

If the post-series handshake is the best thing about the #NHL playoffs, the Edmonton fans singing O Canada is a close second. Chills.

When in DC, and your kid has a college interest, you do the college tour. It’s hot, but let’s look at Georgetown.

I don’t remember who recommended this one to me, but it hits the spot. Not half through yet and much to chew on.

Book cover, blue in color, titled “a window to the divine”, written by Zachary Hayes, OFM.

Oh, man, this bit from D. L. Mayfield today:

“But one day my own children asked me to look at them… They wanted to know if it was safe for them to be who they were. I had to make a choice. Do I want my parents to be proud of me or do I want my children to be proud of me? It was the easiest, most painful choice I have made in my entire life.”

Yep.