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What I’ve Learned so Far About Life
Life ain’t a straight line. It’s not fair, it’s not simple, and it sure doesn’t wait on you to get your act together. I’ve learned life will knock you flat more times than you think is reasonable, and just when you think you’re done, it hands you something beautiful. People come and go. Some stay.…
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I’ve been asking myself lately why I’ve done all of this.
I’ve been asking myself lately why I’ve done all of this.Why, in 1989, I sat in the yard with a notebook computer, working while my son played nearby — but not really paying attention to him. Why I’ve poured 65 to 80 hours a week into work, every week, from college right up to now…
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A Sunday in Buna – Work, Worship, and a Few Omelets
8-10-2025 Today started at 6:15 AM.Printed Lessons 5 and 6 of Great Characters for FMC Buna, prayed for those on my heart, and prepared Lesson 3 on Moses for Sunday School. Before church, I listened to Dr. Richard Lindzen’s Climate “Science” interview (EP 320) — always good to stretch my mind before the day gets…
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When My Heart is Heavy — Meeting God in Grief
Grief is one of the most human experiences we share—and one of the most misunderstood. We often think of it as something we must “get over” or “move past,” but the truth is, grief is love with nowhere to go. When someone or something dear to us is gone, the ache we feel is the…
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Lessons from Ancient Paths: Community, Faith, and Service
Today, my thoughts have been circling around the idea of showing up—how simple, steadfast presence shapes families, communities, and even the course of history. Learning from the Great Characters Recently, I’ve committed to a “great characters” study of Old Testament figures. Spending time with the lives of Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Ruth, and others, I’m struck…
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“If I Could Call Back, I Would. But Now I Build.”
There are days I still wish there was a payphone at the edge of time. A place I could drop in a coin and reach back— to tell Joshua I love him one more time. To warn myself. To freeze the moment before everything fell apart. But there’s no going back. Only through. And so…
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Abraham Rescues Lot – A Reconstructed Storyline (Genesis 14:1–16)
Setting the Stage: Lot, Abraham’s nephew, had chosen to settle near Sodom, a fertile but morally corrupt region in the Jordan Valley (Genesis 13:10–13). In Genesis 14, a coalition of four eastern kings from Mesopotamia and Elam—led by Chedorlaomer, king of Elam—invades Canaan to subdue rebellious city-states, including Sodom and Gomorrah. These kings likely traveled…
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The Hound of Heaven
The Hound of Heaven (Retold: John’s Story)inspired by Francis Thompson I fled Him—Not with wild rebellion,but with a mask, a schedule,a smile I wore to church.I buried myself in roles,in performance,in the lie:I am not enough. He followed. Through my wife’s quiet loyalty,through the voice that said,“This is not who you are.”Through Leisa’s love—stubborn, undeserved—He…
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My Mirrors
Liminal Scripture and the Story I’m Living Genesis 32 – Wrestling at the River “Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.” I know this place— the night where there are no more distractions, where the only way forward is through the pain I’ve been carrying. Like…
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The in between
I’ve been sitting with the reality of what it means to live in the in-between. There’s a word for that space: liminal. It means the threshold, the crossing place. Not where you started, not yet where you’re going. Just… between. That’s where I’ve lived for a long time—between grief and hope, memory and mission. And…
John Hargrove Seeking Truth and Reality
Texas engineer finding the signal of grace in grief, code, and Scripture
John Hargrove Seeking Truth and Reality 