This past week I’ve been in Grand Rapids MN where I lived 25 years ago, at the runway/home of my spiritual father, Dave Cutsforth. Many incredible memories linger though much has changed. The apartment where we used to live in the back of the airplane hangar has been torn out and the location now houses a machine shop. The rock where I used to meditate and copy the scriptures for secret study without the knowledge of my dad is still there but the woods that grew up around it is now a manicured lawn. There are kids who weren’t born when I was here – very scary thought. I don’t feel 40. Then there’s the big hill where we used to go cliff jumping. I went walking out there to see it and reminisce. On the way I thought, “I am not getting old, and I shall prove it; I shall once more climb to the top of the hill like the good ol’ days and jump off.” But to my dismay when I reached the spot, I found that the hill was no more. It had been bulldozed down into the ravine to make a flat plane with only  [ Read More ]

This week I am privileged to spend some time with a dear friend and mentor, Dr. Anjuli Nayak, who is currently battling Leukemia. Dr. Anjuli is one of those rare friends who is not only supportive and encouraging, but who also is not afraid to say “You’re wrong and you need to change, and this is how you can improve.” That kind of friend is very valuable. Dr. Anjuli and her husband Nick are Hindus who have discovered Jesus as their Guru, Lord and Master. I have never met such a godly family that demonstrates such love for each other and for the suffering people in the world. Some people have every opportunity to change the world but they miss the chance by focusing their life on other more mundane things. Others say “If I had more I could change the world,” and feel quenched by their circumstances. But some, though they may not have a lot, sacrificially invest what they have… and in so doing, their seed sown changes perhaps one life, perhaps hundreds. And those lives change more lives. The mustard seed becomes a mighty tree. The Nayaks and many more true heroes are in the third category.  [ Read More ]