On New Year's Eve, I glanced over an email from Bill Hybels, the Senior Pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, in which he encouraged everyone to take time to count their blessings. He told the story of his own family, of their New Year's Eve tradition (if I'm getting this right) of sharing ten great …
“Places”
Each night I stand backstage pacing back and forth, running a small ritual that has become important to me as a preparation for a coming night of emotional journeying. The role of Eric Weiss in Brooklyn Boy is a challenging one, one that I relate to all too well. And then, inevitably, my friend Carla …
Ceasura
It's a pause in a line of verse or meter. It implies, and most frequently, demands, a breath. It's an between-moment, a brief stop in a journey. So I'm trying to catch the breath offering itself in this particular ceasura. 2010 holds new promise, new possibilities. The season of full-time ministry is waning, though not …
Our First Date 32 Years Ago
October 27, 1977. Abilene, Texas. Mid-afternoon, I get a call from my sister who is working for a local radio station. She's got two extra tickets for the Doobie Brothers concert at Taylor County Coliseum that night. Would I like them? Sure, I say, sounds fun. The girl I was semi-dating at the time was …
21 Years of Amy
Reflecting on a daughter... 21 Years of Amy (to borrow a phrase). I can't remember what it was like before her, really. I have memories of pre-Amy days, but they're all colored with the knowledge of her coming. I even have a couple of pre-birth letters I wrote to her, though I didn't know her …
JEFF BERRYMAN 