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the extra mile
Indiana has made lots of wonderful friends at High Hopes. One of her favorites is a boy named Max…
presidential treatment
We have some good friends who own the Texas Rangers. The first time Joey and I went to see a game with them was a night we’ll never forget…
last letters
Before Joey passed away, she wrote and left letters for her Mom, Dad, sister Jody, and also for our older daughters Heidi and Hopie, but she didn't leave on for me. Instead she left me something even more beautiful…
i choose love
It was a day or two after we buried Joey, and I was sitting at the kitchen table with our middle daughter Hopie. She was twenty-seven years old at the time with beautiful brown hair and soft green eyes. “Is there anything you want to tell me?”, I asked.
“You won’t understand,” she answered through her tears. “You’ll judge me…”
what about bob?
For the minimal price of ten dollars on Amazon, I got to help Bob Goff build a school in Africa and in return, he gave me his cell number, appeared in a film about our lives, taught me how to love my wife and children better, but mostly - he showed me a glimpse of what being more like Christ really looks like…
same kind of different
We launched a new website yesterday. It's something that's been in the works for awhile now, but has taken a few months for them to get done, and even more so, for me to make sense of…
child bride
My niece Rachel had her wedding reception in our barn this past weekend. Her hubby Dalton got the first dance with the bride, but I got the last one - with my little-bitty bride that is…
it is well
It's so hard to believe, but it's been two years already since my wife Joey passed away. That's half of our little Indiana's life...