A blog about faith and fighting leukemia.
I’ve felt like a popular guy the last couple of weeks. There was a good response to my last two blog posts and my birthday was last week. I probably received more cards this year than the previous ten years…
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Experience is the best teacher, so they say. I would add the caveat that “evaluated” experience is the best teacher. If we don’t take the time to evaluate what has happened to us, we often miss the lesson. Photo by…
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She had one mission. If she could just get close enough, it would work. She believed all the rumors and stories about how this man could heal the sick and wounded. She had even heard that he raised people from…
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I spend the predominance of my time these days in three locations: the driver’s seat of my car, my office chair at work, and my couch. A typical day starts on the couch as I read the Bible and pray…
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It was the middle of the night in Iraq. My company had been there several months now and was becoming more proficient in learning how to survive in Anbar Province. This mission should be a simple one: escort some fuel…
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High maintenance and unpredictable. That’s the best way to describe me these days. I’m a far cry from the old, predictable, plain vanilla Jeff that my wife grew used to. These days, there is nothing predictable about me. Photo by melalouise; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode…
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I’ve wrapped up another trip to Houston. This is my third time since going home after the transplant. The planning and logistics have become fairly routine. I stay at the same place, take generally the same flights, see the same…
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I like gifts as much as the next person. After twelve years of marriage, my dear wife knows me well, so birthdays and Christmas bring some of my favorite things, namely coffee and gift cards to Best Buy or iTunes. …
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In my early twenties, I struggled frequently about finding the purpose for my life. After I graduated college, I attended the Infantry Officer Basic Course and then started a great job at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. I waffled back…
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It’s one thing to persevere when you can see the finish line. It’s quite another when the end seems to be nowhere in sight. Such situations require mental as well as physical stamina. This is why elite military units often…
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