I Can’t Wait

There he sat. Starbucks in hand.  Long white beard and ponytail.  Painting “Jesus” on cardboard with a fire that burned hot for our Lord.  As we talked it came clear he had lost everything the world says is important.  Money, family, friends, stature.  But oh how much he had gained.  This man was spending his…

Oh how I love being your child!  Each morning I am offered a new day to love and praise you.  A new day to talk to you.  To marvel at your love.  The world and its’ parade tries to still our time.  Hurry from here to there.  This phone call and that meeting.  All the…

How can we presume to make someone or something soiled that God has created.  Peter was told by Jesus to eat of what he considered to be unclean. “How can you worry about what you consider unclean when God has already made it clean and purified it”.  Don’t we do that with people?  Through judgment…

So I use to be an addict!  I’m sure that statement caught you off guard.  You may be thinking –  this is a surprise!  Without hesitation I could raise my hand and say “Hi my name is Perry and I am an addict”.  I’m pretty safe in saying we all could.  People have a universal…

The Grizzly Giant Redwood.  Three hundred fifty feet tall.  One hundred feet around at the base.  As I stand in the shadow of this unbelievable creation I think of you father.  How you took a seed the size of my fingernail and with love and nurturing you turned it into this amazing tree. You then…

So I need you to have an open heart and mind!  I need you to think outside of the box, for a moment.  Lorna and I recently had a chance to visit a famous nude beach.  Wanting to experience as many things in this life as we can, we decided to go.  I will tell…