Better than mere water…

As Minnesotans, we have a close relationship with water.  Swimming in lakes in the summer and skating on them in the winter.  It is part of our identity.  Water, as we know, is one of the most basic needs to sustain life. 

Can do Anything

This winter I have embarked on a new adventure – coaching a kids’ cross country ski group.  I have skied since I was in high school.  I have raced and I have coached adults.  But teaching 6–8-year-olds who are beginners to ski is new for me.

Those Who Came Before

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in the presence of John the Baptist? Dressed in camel hair, eating insects and wild honey, clomping around and shouting loudly—I am not sure he is the kind of person that I would gravitate too. Yet people were following him away from town and out into the wilderness.