Stac’s Place

Well, things are coming along nicely today. I changed the dressing, finding that the gauze was pretty encrusted at the corner where the wound was still a little wet yesterday. But it came off pretty cleanly, and I sit here typing this with the finger unwrapped, letting it get a little air.
I’ve been [...]

[Read more →]

I have been using Pray As You Go for a while now as part of my daily time with the Lord. As I work through this finger injury, I’ve been amazed to see points of intersection with PAYG. I know that God sees all things, and that he speaks through his word, but [...]

[Read more →]

Well, the dr visit came and went, pretty uneventfully. The cut hadn’t healed to the point where the doc wanted to take the stitches out today. It’s still a little wetter than the doc wants it, at least on the side toward my index finger. I did get to soak the finger [...]

[Read more →]

Well, another day is done. I slept in, spent the day getting ready to teach tonight, and made it through OK. I took the pain meds today, and I was glad to have them.
Pics are here. But I’m guessing that they’re all starting to look the same.
Tomorrow is a big day–I [...]

[Read more →]

It’s been a pretty good day. I’m feeling up for teaching tonight. Our middle school ministry–XStream–meets Wednesday nights. I’m going to lead a discussion on the first half of the Great Commandment.
It’s found in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Interestingly, Jesus speaks the words in answer to a question in [...]

[Read more →]

I got an incredible amount of email, facebook wall posts, cards, and calls from some wonderful people over the past few days. I’m not sure if it’s that they want to celebrate my birthday, or they want to drop a note to say they’re praying for my recovery, or both. But it’s been [...]

[Read more →]

Whew, what a day! Birthday bashing, finger stuff lingering, baseball (rained out)…I tried to get back into the swing of things today, but it was too much.

We had Kim’s sister Erin and her husband Joe stay over last night, and it was a late night. I rolled out of the bed [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve been starting my prayer time each day by singing/writing the doxology. I grew up in a church that sang the doxology as the offering was collected each Sunday morning. Becky Tirabassi was in State College a few weeks ago to wrap up our Burning Heart series, and she encouraged us to use [...]

[Read more →]

Things went pretty well today. I decided that I’d try to make it through the day without pain meds, which turned out to be doable, for the most part. I changed the bandage with a little help from my brave-hearted wife, got myself cleaned up, and went to baseball practice for the first [...]

[Read more →]

One of the upsides of this whole accident is that I can’t do much. I can’t drive. Therefore, I can’t go to baseball practice (I coach the JV team at State High), can’t go to the office. I can’t go out to run, can’t go rock climbing or paddling with buddies, can’t [...]

[Read more →]