. . . because someday it will!
It was bound to happen sometime. I’ve had my new road bike a month or so and been out on about a dozen rides. I saw the troublesome looking rock as I rode through the mud and debris that was trailing out from the construction site, but too late. I could not avoid it, and sure enough, pop! There went the back tire tube. That was deflating. 
But that’s life, isn’t it? Live long enough and compile enough life experience and some time some place things are going to go “pop!” It’s not a matter of if, but when. It may be nothing more than an inner tube, but it may be something way more . . that lab report you’ve been waiting on; that call at 2 a.m. (nothing good ever happens that time of day); that “pop!” to your smooth ride through life’s current chapter. What do you do when life goes pop? Continue reading

The season that follows Easter in the church year is called “Eastertide”. In our house we’ve been talking about this week in terms of it being Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, Easter Wednesday . . . So, while the culture and world around us packs up the Easter season and moves on – to the latest news cycle, presidential primary, MLB season, or whatever – and while churches and pastors slow in their reporting (er- bragging?) about Easter Sunday attendance and hope they might see at least two-thirds of those folks again this Sunday . . . I’d like to linger a bit with Easter’s news and implications.