About

After 25 years of ministry in western Kansas, I am enjoying retirement living in Denver with my wife, Karen.

Education

• Loveland High School

Favorite saying

• "Life isn't about waiting for the rain to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain. "One thing I learned from (life): drinking wine is more than just drinking. You have to know what you are dirinking, and you have to be able to talk about it. Similary, just living life is not enough. We must know what we are living. A life that is not reflected upon isn't worth living. It belongs to the essence of being human that we comtemplate our life, think about it, discuss it, evaluate it, and form opinions about it. Half of living is reflected on what is being lived. Is it worth it? Is it good? Is it bad? Is it old" Is it new? What is it all about? The greatest joy as well as the greatest pain of living come not only from what we live but even more from how we think and feel about what we are living. Poverty and wealth, success and failure, beauty and ugliness aren't just the facts of life. They are realities that are lived very differently by different people, depending on the way they are placed in the larger scheme of things. A poor person who has compared his poverty with the wealth of his neighbor and thought about the discrepency lives his poverty very differently than the person who has no wealthy neighbor and has never been able to make a comparison. Reflection is essential for growth, development, and change. It is the unique power of the human person." Henri J.M. Nouwen, "Can You Drink the Cup?" page 26-27 "Drinking the cup that Jesus drank is living a life in and with the spirit of Jesus, which is the spirit of unconditional love. The intimacy between Jesus and Abba, his Father, is an intimacy of complete trust, in which there are no power games, no nutually agreed upon promises, no advace guarantees. It is only love--pure, unrestrained, and unlimited love. Completely open, completely free. That intimacy gave Jesus the strength to drink his cup. That same intimacy Jesus wants to give us so that we can drink ours. That intimacy has a Name, a Divine Name. It is called Holy Spirit. Living a spiritual life is living a life in which the Holy Spirit will guide us and give us the strength and courage to keep saying yes to the qreat question." (Ibid. page 107)"