On the heels of shepherding a family through a murder/attempted suicide, counseling a teen threatening the same, and dealing with the normal local church issues all pastors face; we decided to take a break and hold a family celebration for my granddaughter’s first birthday. Suddenly, as we were eating pizza and laughing, my 30 year old son fell over, went into the bathroom and began vomiting violently. Turns out he had a stroke. To this day, doctors have no idea what caused i

During our recent cruise and destination wedding trip, it became clear soon after leaving port in NY that we were traveling straight toward a hurricane/tropical storm moving up the coast from the Eastern Caribbean. Our captain steered us around it such that we really never felt a thing. In fact, I didn’t learn of the maneuver or how close we had come to it until we were on our way home. Later we learned that a transformer had blown-up in our front yard and we returned home to