Mark's Blog

In the last two weeks, the Dallas Mavericks have won the NBA Championship,  school  vacation has started for all of our grandkids, summer movies have started coming each week—we saw Super 8 and thought it was great fun—and with the help of a robot, I had surgery and have recovered enough to have enjoyed Father’s Day yesterday with all of our Texas family!

Many, many thanks to Craig Altrock, who graciously provided some wonderful thoughts on and from Psalm 119. Craig and his family will be returning from Rwanda soon, where they have been involved in a Let’s Start Talking Project.

And thanks for allowing me a short break.  I want to get back to “Re-Thinking Missions” and reply to some of the responses that I have come from those of you engaged in this conversation.  I also want to do some writing about Leadership, especially church leadership.  Then, I look forward to sharing with you everything from movie reviews to the results from Grandkids Camp (July 1).

The Swedes have a proverb that says, “A life without love is like a year without summer!”   That’s pretty good, except I lived in northern Europe enough to know that they do have years without summer.

So let’s end with the poet William Carlos Williams saying, “In summer, the song sings itself!”