Weekly Devotionals and Blogs
Christmas Eve
Keith has written several blogs recently. Due to a week of confusion they are just now ready to post. We apologize for the time lag. December 24, 2011 This morning our friend Trice took me to a meeting of a group of men. These men have had such an enormous positive...
I Love You, Daddy
This post is really different for me to write. It is about the process of making the transition from a life of faith in the God Jesus called, "Father," to the end of that life in the process we call "dying”. As I am writing this draft, Andrea and I are now in the...
Gratitude and Grief
After several days of medical procedures and tests we were told last Thursday (October 20th) by my Gastroenterologist that the internal blockage that has caused recent discomfort is the result of the bile duct being squeezed shut because of a tumor pressing against...
Finding a New Personality? Or Uncovering the One That Got Buried?
I’m a Christian and am also newly in a recovery program. But I’m confused about some of the terminology of the spiritual life that seems to me to be more similar to the faith I found before recovery than I had thought, but still different. My question is: In the...
A Message from the Past
How do you deal with sad things like missed opportunities or things you regret in your past? I have some incidents from twenty years ago that periodically come up in my dreams. I wake up filled with sadness, but since we can’t undo what happened in the past, how do...
What Does It Take to Begin?
Dear Keith, I don’t know what the matter with me is. I have a good job and a caring family, but inside my head when I’m alone I seem to have some sort of secretive and self-defeating mental/emotional disease. I find myself drinking and eating too much, and...
What Was it About Hank—That Changed Our Lives?
Saturday at Riverbend Church here in Austin, TX, a large number of people gathered to say a formal “Goodbye,” and “We love you, Hank!” to our dear remarkable, unpretentious friend, Francis Leo “Hank” McNamara. It was a strange mix: some 50 or 60 family members; many...
Finding a Vocation after Surrendering to God
Keith, After I decided to surrender my life to God, how should I go about finding my vocation? Good question. At first I didn’t know what to do. I was a land man for a major oil company. It was a good job but hardly considered to be a training ground for...
How to Get Out of Pain
Keith, what does Jesus say about the fact that good Christians often have serious pain? I don’t know where the notion came from that committed Christians shouldn’t have pain. But for me pain has been the most important way that I find my way back to God—again and...
