Two Saturdays ago was a really special day in the Richard household. After a fun time of rotating my tires, we took the kids to the mall for a bit of shopping in preparation of the girls’ trip to Michigan in a week and a half. (Even I got some stuff. A…

This is the “hardest” reason to be thankful–to date. But I am so thankful for the times of pain and hurt in my life, both deserved and those times when it was undeserved.I remember almost five years ago when someone I dearly loved perpetrated great e…

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For whatever reason, I find myself in the most precarious situations.  Once, I walked up on a bulldozer trucking along barreling over trees, headed straight for a church parking when I was on staff at North Cleveland COG.  I quickly learned how to drive a bulldozer…lucky I didn’t get run over in the process.  People […]

It’s a day after Father’s Day. I’m somewhat reflective thinking back on my childhood…and thinking about my relationship with my children.  I’d like to share some things from the perspective of a son and a father…with some words to fathers. I don’t have a story of a father who wasn’t there or a father who […]

INTEGRITY is defined as “wholeness; uprightness; honesty or soundness of moral principles and character.” That pretty much sums it up, huh?Well, not exactly. I agree completely with the definition as rendered. Last night, I had the great blessing …

Two months.It’s been two months to the day since I last posted. In that time, I have created a short film, jumped off a mountain, been surrounded by skulls, climbed to the top of a 650-year-old cathedral, been in Hitler’s bunker, summited the eleventh …