Walking By Faith
And as I was reading through the lyrics, our journey is written between the lines (my thoughts are in bold).
The other day, I read in my devotional how we often try to stay busy, as our culture screams at us to do so. For indeed, it’s our culture that tries to make us believe that a busy life is a successful life. When we spend umpteen hours at our job, surely that makes us…
This is probably not the cloud you are thinking of. This past weekend in Michigan, was filled with many fall clouds and rain, as the Sterks became more and more antsy to get outside. I sometimes wonder how we get through the long winter months! But I’m not talking about actual cloud cover. I’m talking…
As I stepped out our van today in our church parking lot, I strapped on my mask and walked through the all too familiar doors of our church. It had been 2 months since I last stepped foot into a service, but still masked because I had been in chemo the prior two months. It…
Here’s what has been going on in our life lately… Dan was gone last week to Summit, a conference for Christian educators in Dayton, Tennessee (near Chattanooga). Dan said it was interesting being the only youth pastor and one of the only people from a church (the rest were Christian school teachers or homeschool parents)….
My day started off with a dark and dreary drive (so much so I expected to see the first snowflake of the season) to Grand Rapids, to continue evaluation for a bone marrow transplant. Every meeting done, every box checked, is one step further in the process. It was a lot, but at the same…
The end of another year. 2019. When I was a kid, I used to think about what my life would look like when I was 15, 20, 30, etc. Here I now sit, at the ripe ole age of 36, trying to remember in detail, what I envisioned my life looking like. I’d like to…