Grace and Truth

In a previous life, I was responsible for establishing the tone, atmosphere, and culture of a school campus. Schools are learning communities. So, of course, my goal was for the campus to be a fertile place for learning. With excellent teachers and motivated students, I was usually proud of the way our students performed, both…

The True Light

Over the course of a 44-year career, I accumulated a few things that were particularly meaningful to me. I have a thank-you note, for example, from a fourth-grader who thanked me for making the school a place to which she enjoyed coming. I will forever save, and occasionally wear, the cowboy hat from a board…

Getting Lapped

An Advent Devotional The official lined us up on the starting line according to our seed times. That put Joshua, the nationally ranked runner from Immanuel, in the first spot. I was second. Josh and I, along with 20 other runners, were to run the ever-popular 10K on the track. That’s 10,000 meters run in…