The Reynolds Family is 1 man trying to live with 4 beautiful girls who insist dolls are more fun than dirt.
// January 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Christianity, Community, Environment, Family, Family Values, Government
I wasn’t involved with the Psalms 23 House myself, but my church was one of the collaborators in the project indirectly through Urban Youth Impact. Watch this video to see a homegrown “Extreme Home Makeover”. Much of what is interesting is toward the end, so check it out.
// December 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // Family Values, Health, Hunting, Outdoors, Relationships, Writing
Each Year I Go Into the Woods
A Poem, Quatrain, Ballad or something of the sort by: Jason Reynolds
Each year I go into the woods;
I tell others it is to hunt those deer!
The truth: it is to put my feet where grandfather stood
Find my soul and wrestle my fear.
Sitting on the ground, trying not to be found,
Melting into the solemn autumn, white flag on a big buck’s bottom,
Singular concentration trying not to blink wrong, the birds sing their song;
About the time the crickets cease, the sun’s arising and so is the peace.
// September 15th, 2009 // No Comments » // Christianity, Family Values, Ministry, Parenting, Personal, Theology
Today at the church where I work we brought in some folks from the National Christian Foundation to discuss the topic of Generosity. Not just talking about giving here, but about our hearts condition toward being benevolent, poured out, and surrendering our rights. Was really cool to spend the day watching videos and processing what it meant to us individually with-in small groups. At the end, all the staff broke up into 8 groups and listed out what could be possible if our whole church caught an infection of generosity. My group alone came up with 19 world-changing outcomes of a large group of people becoming ridiculously generous.
// August 27th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Christianity, Environment, Family Values, Relationships, Theology
Just had a fun exchange with my daughter after wrestling one on one for strength. A great daddy-daughter moment.
Lily: Are you strong or what?
Me: Yep, I am strong.
Lily: But your not as strong as God! Daddy, how strong is God?
Me: He’s the strongest! He is so strong he made everything. You know how the earth spins…well, it is like he is spinning it on his finger… that is how strong and how big God is.
// July 8th, 2009 // No Comments » // Cooking, Family, Family Values
Of course as we get older we start to see how smart our parents were. Well mom (and I know you are reading this mom) was right in her prophecy that one of these days I would realize what I was missing.
I now eat green beans, peanuts, salad, eggs sunny side up, and avocado. Mom, you were right (atleast about this).
