Our Grand Canyon trip is loaded with prompts. We’ve got the young woman, Sarah, whose disabilities are finding traction in this unique application. She offers many behind her the model for adventures in a wheelchair. We’ve got her mother and brother who explore their own experiences as a supportive family. We can add a young [...]
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Grand Canyon Angles
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hiding the Limp
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It can be called nothing short of remarkable. The local director of the Easter Seals camp called and asked if I would gather a team to push/pull a young woman in her wheel chair to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and then back out again. In one day. And we leave in six [...]
A Mother’s Labor
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to a funeral last Sunday for a woman I have known for a decade or so. She was always pleasant, always committed, always the organized person most of us would want to be. Her funeral was a surprise event for us all. But there was a bigger surprise for me. One of [...]
Earning Grace
Posted in Uncategorized on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ironically, people who openly speak of Christ as Savior are often the least likely to accept God’s grace as a grounds for peace with Him. And with good reason. They are the responsible type. They tend to earn their keep. They tend to say “Thanks” and “Excuse me.” They know when it is their turn to [...]
The Deeper Work of Faith
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I make it all sound too easy. The brief friendship eclipsed by a love that led to an engagement ring in about two months is the stuff of movies. Still, it is the story of my wife and I. While we formally were engaged in 39 days, I needed about 3.9 days to know that [...]
A Classy Reunion
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have not been a great friend to my great friends through the years, so it was with some embarassment that I crept into my 25 year high school reunion last weekend. Add to that the predictable wet blanket that most ministers carry into a party and you might understand why I was slow to mingle.
How wrong I was. [...]
When nothing looks familiar
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My oldest son and I recently spent a few nights in a van parked outside the music festival known as Cornerstone. It is a gathering of Christians keen on music but committed to what we might call fringe communities. I saw more hippies and mohawked metal heads in one evening than I had seen in [...]
Writing Break
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Summer for us is especially busy, so I think I do the few readers a favor by taking a break with the blog. If you are out there, thank you for reading. In fact, if you are out there and actually want this blog to exist, drop me a response.
Chris White
It is still us
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Returning from Disney World with $106 cash is a moral victory, if you ask me. The park is a virtual vacuum on the wallet, so anything we kept is quite the surprise.
That is the word of the place, of course: surprise. Disney works very, very hard to make the park an over-the-top experience. They love [...]
Influence Real and Imagined
Posted in Uncategorized on June 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With my oldest son now among the senior class of his local high school, it is hard to stop thinking about parental influence in his life.
On the one hand, it is hard to escape the unique angles on that boy that neither his mother nor I created or encouraged. This is not be critical of his [...]
