One of my many faults is a discomfort with silence when meeting someone for the first time or in a group of people. If there is a void of silence, I will fill it. Probably with a joke or, quite possibly, something nonsensical. I now realize that sometimes the best thing to do is remain silent and just drink in the moment!

One of my favorite traveling games when my wife and I are driving somewhere is to listen to 80s music, in my opinion the greatest decade of music ever, and say, “Who is this?”, trying to name the band.

For those of us who have to wear some sort of corrective lenses, what a gift it is to be able to see clearly as, we know, what is it like to try and read or see without them.  The historical interaction that we read about today between the blind man brought by his friends and Jesus, resulted in his sight being restored, and him having the ability to see everything clearly (Mark 8:25).

While taking a boat ride away from an incredibly full day or two, Jesus’ disciples were distracted by something Jesus said. While talking about “yeast of the Pharisees,” the disciples got distracted by bread, and their thoughts were on literal bread.

I love to hear my dad’s stories. One of those stories was about the time when my dad was working construction and came up against a problem he couldn’t make sense of, so he called my Uncle Bob. My Uncle Bob was someone who my dad trusted and had great wisdom when it came to commercial excavation.