I just got back from being on holidays - my wife and I and two friends spent some time in Mexico. While we were there we met and chatted with a really likeable guy named Ellio. Ellio worked at the place where we stayed selling massages on the beach and every day he would wander around trying to convince people that their vacation was incomplete unless they had a 50 minute massage.
During the Christmas Break we had a warm spell that lasted for a couple of days where I live. Prior to this reprieve from the cold, what I didn’t know was that my downspout leading from my garage had clogged full of leaves (apparently good home owners check this during the fall) and had slowed the flow of water. As the weather got colder, the backlog of water froze in my eaves.
Growing up my favourite book was called, “Robert the Rose Horse” - it was a pretty brilliant piece of literature containing all of the elements you would expect in a great story - there were horses and roses and sneezing. To say that it shaped my life is probably grossly exaggerating the truth, but I adored the tale nonetheless. Read the rest of this entry »
We live in a strange time. I’m not complaining about it mind you, there are plenty of things in our day and age that I love. Whether it’s our ability to travel to the other side of the world with relative ease or the fact that on my phone I’m able to check email, surf the net and use GPS (never mind actually making calls). We are a brilliant people, shrinking the world, increasing our ability to communicate and tackling all sorts of the world’s problems with things like medical advancements.
Something you should know up front about me: despite what a contingent of people I went to high school with might think [they missed the boat] I’m a relatively enjoyable person to be around. Case and point: my wife and I are coming up on one year and she hasn’t yet tried to suffocate me with a pillow as I sleep - that has to mean something right? Obviously I’m no social superstar or I wouldn’t even feel the need to write this paragraph but conversely, I could hardly be accused of being a consistent buzz kill - I say consistent because one must allow for those moments when the brokenness of my humanity breaks through at such times as [although not limited to] Monday mornings, traffic jams and after Colts losses. Read the rest of this entry »
James Kelly Says:
Hi Reg,
I appreciate this post a lot. I hear some of what Frost spoke on, regarding the Kingdom preview. Good stuff. I also hear your heart in this. Thanks brother.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:11 am
Wow, Reg. This is really well thought out. And as someone from yet an older generation, I saw my peer group do exactly the same thing — dismiss the value of what had been handed down and thought we knew better.
"There is nothing new under the sun." Thanks for the humility and grace that you portray as you write.