Wrestling with Jacob

A journal of faith, grief and devotional musings

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  • Tomorrow’s lie

    Life is short. We know it all too well, it passes us by as quickly as the morning fog lifts off our favorite lake. Life is certainly just a vapor, it comes then it goes as fast as it arrived. I am in mid life, I turned 47 last week but am I really in Read more

  • The calls

    The call that none of us want to receive never came to my wife, she delivered it. Stacey found our son Jacob dead on our basement bathroom floor a year ago today. I got the call about around 10 AM, she was frantic and wailing things that I couldn’t understand. I asked her to repeat Read more

  • Get a whiff of this

    Its coming up on a year since Jacob died, he would have turned 23 on March 3rd. I had 22 years of opportunity to influence his life for good and now I live with only the memories of what I did right or wrong. Do I wish I could change some things? Certainly. Do I live with Read more

  • Joyful growing pangs

    Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men; and the living will take it to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for by a sad countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the Read more

  • Jesus and the 1%ers

    Jesus and the 1%ers When was the last time you lost your wallet or your purse? We all have experienced the panic and the fear of losing our identification, money, credit cards and other things of great value. We retrace our steps, our thoughts race and we make every effort to retrieve our valuable lost Read more