Posts from January 2025

It doesn’t take too much to make the roads slippery, does it? Water, ice, and snow can have you sliding or doing spinny things into ditches, telephone poles, or other vehicles. Crrrunchhhh! The roads of life can get pretty slippery, too. With little warning we’re sent careening out of control and into mercilessly hard objects. Relationship crunches. Job…

A few weeks ago we were in Africa visiting our daughter Courtney and her family. Traveling by car in this developing nation is… an experience. There are horse-drawn carts piled high with merchandise, buses with goats on top and people hanging off the back, motorcycles whizzing in and out, and pedestrians playing real-life Frogger. One day while driving we were approaching…

We are all familiar with odometers in our vehicles. Odometers show the distance the car has traveled. By this we can often discern how much life the vehicle has left in it. Some vehicles—usually trucks and heavy equipment—also have hour-meter indicators, which show how many hours the engine has been running. A vehicle like a snow plow might not have a lot miles to show,…