24/7

If you know me, you know what the title means.
A special prayer room, a full week of prayer. I started on Sunday at midnight to 1AM, continued my shift 2AM through 3:30 AM Sunday morning. I should have stayed until 4, and let the staff sleep. That has bothered me all week. Two of my [...]

Shuffle Bored

From a magician friend in Spain; “The word for ‘cards’ in Spanish is in the feminine. It pleases me to know this. The deck is like a woman; if you hold it to tightly, you crush it. If you hold it to loose, it flies away. If you don’t show it the proper respect, you [...]

Biggest Laugh in Weeks

Garfield Minus Garfield
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated [...]

Hollow Man

I think I have become one of the hollow men
As I shine on the outside more these days
I can feel the outside feeding on my inside
Leaves a growing darkness in it’s place
I think I have become one of the lonely
Now that everybody talks to me
I feel I have become one of the empty
Hollow men can [...]

The Nature of God

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn’t work that way.
I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

My Complex

Wendy
Darling
In the kitchen
With your dreams
Will you fly again
Take to the sky again
Undo the Hooks
Once and for all
Banish the tic tok (tic tok tic tok)
Again
Will you be
Yourself for me
Cause I can take it
I can stand
Anything
When you’re with me
I can stand it
I can stand
But when you’re gone
I never land
In Neverland
Want to be someone someone would want to [...]

Disturb Me

Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to [...]

Fantastic Voyage

A few weeks ago I was honored to be a guest at a friend’s wedding. They were married on the beach in Charleston, SC and God blessed them with cool breezes and no rain. It really was incredible. Musicians played, an artist painted, the grand creator fashioned colors and textures as only He can.
And then.
As [...]

They Sit at the Bar and put Bread in My Jar

One of the questions I am asked most often is “why aren’t you on TV?” or “why aren’t you working in Las Vegas or somewhere big?”
When I was a boy it was a big treat to be allowed to stay up late and watch the variety shows that were popular at the time. My parents [...]

Quandry