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Deciding on How to Spend a Decade
Me, 11 years ago, when I made a big decision. Ten years. That’s how long I stayed with my parents to help them as they aged and became more infirm. It was something I never imagined doing. I was the...
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Life Changes
Life changes. However, I didn’t experience much change for about 10 years. As I’ve written in previous posts, I came to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2012 to help my parents. That was a year of many...
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Entering Community
My dog walking through the dining room at our new home. My last post on this site, almost two months ago, detailed all the changes that had occurred in my life during 2022. I ended by describing my...
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Finding the Center
A Grand Rapids sunrise. I recently blogged about having moved into a community in Milwaukee, describing the community I’m living in. This is a big life change for me, so it’s prompting reflection and...
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The Divine Office
In my last post, I talked about worship being the center of life. I quoted Eugene Peterson: “In worship God gathers his people to himself as center: ‘The Lord reigns’ (Ps. 93:1). Worship is a meeting...
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Standing Ovation
Trea Turner/Rich Schultz/GettyImages Living in community means being sensitive to each other’s struggles, acknowledging, sympathizing, and encouraging someone who is having a hard time. Last week, a...
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I Finally Got Covid
So, I finally got Covid, having dodged it for nearly four years. I started coughing Sunday afternoon, and it progressively got worse the next few days. I went for a Covid test on Tuesday, and it came...
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A Year in Review
A year ago I was living in Grand Rapids, Michigan, packing up in preparation for moving to Milwaukee. I had been there for ten years, ever since I came north to help my parents, and I had formed many...
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A Year in Review, Part Two
Recently, I posted some thoughts about the past year. Life changed quite a bit during 2023, with a move from Michigan to Wisconsin, going from living alone to living in a communal setting, and from...
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When Parents Die, Who Do They Become?
Ed (not his real name), who lives with me at Barnabas House, just lost his father. His mother died a few years ago. His dad was 92 years old and under hospice care. Ed’s relationship with his dad was...
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