1. CHOOSE YOUR AUDIENCE AND THUS YOUR VOICE: My brother, Brian Wilson, tells riveting adventure stories. Family gatherings often bring forth still another yarn, and I gleefully request that he write it down. I am collecting a sizable file! What fun it will be to edit his tall tales one day. His voice is the [...]
My technically savvy father left us the precious gift of time travel—a DVD of Christmas movies covering almost 30 years! For two hours we laugh and cry our way forward from the late 1950’s in California to the mid 1980’s in Oregon. It is a joy to watch my brothers and me grow up around [...]
Honoring has its challenges both individually and culturally. How much easier it is to slow down and adapt to the needs of a cute little child than respond to those of an older person. We may value life deeply, but an insidious prejudice creeps in. Thankfully, a few stand up on MAX and offer their [...]
1. TELL YOUR STORY FOR YOURSELF To tell your story, especially God’s role in your story, requires a life review . . . remembering and considering the seasons you've enjoyed or endured. As you walked through those seasons, events and relationships were up close and personal . . . much like a macro lens. In those moments, [...]
