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Welcome to my corner of the internet. Thoughts, journals, and whatever else comes to mind.Hoppity the Lillypad Train
Another train story from the Cromer household. These are getting more and more imaginative as we wear out the obvious ones... which is in turn making them more and more fun. This one involves a train the size of a frog, lillypads, a dragonfly, and ... a yellow...
Noski the Snow Ski Train.
Tonight I told the story of Noski the Snow Ski Train. Thought about making a little picture collage for the kids to go with it, but decided to just record it and throw in a picture or two. These will be fun to come back to sometime....
Electro the Lightning Train
There was once a train named Electro. Electro had a special way of travel that was unlike any other train. He did not ride on rails. He did not even ride on roads. Electro was unique because he was able to travel between the earth and the clouds on bolts of lightning....
Marley The Ocean Train
There was once a train named Marley. He was a very special type of train, becuase he was able to ride specially designed train tracks that were laid across the bottom of the ocean. The OCEAN!? Yes, the Ocean! Every week, Marley would load up his train cars with things...
The First Easter Morning – Darkness, Fear, and Surprise
Today I had the pleasure of one of my students asking me what MY favorite part of Easter is. Love it when they ask me for my opinion. My favorite part? The surprise. That first Easter morning wasn't full of the expectation and joy we experience now... the...
Without Days Like Today
Today is one of those days where nature feels almost monochromatic. Gray skies. Brown grass. Mud. Leaf-less trees, fog, and puddles. The occasional chipmumk quietly skurrying across a damp path. If it were not for days like today, days like those we will experience...
Quickbooks won't even honor their own offer one week later
Well, Intuit QuickBooks... I told your customer service rep that I'd let my friends know you offered me a deal last week for $60 off the upgrade you forced me into on your software, only to offer me $150 off plus a free mobile charger one week later. So...
Faithful and True
My favorite new song from the conference I was at this weekend is called Faithful and True, by the Jordon Howerton Band. When I boil down the doubts in my life, what remains is a fear that God really ISN'T who He says He is. This weekend reminded me that God...
Day One at SYMC – My Clenched Fist
I'm attending the Simply Youth Ministry Conference here in Indianapolis this weekend. It's a conference for youth workers, BY youth workers. I'm there for a number of reasons, one of which is to share with some of those I meet my passion for building more effective...
Tell YOUR story – That's where the power is
Today I sent an email to a TV news station about a project I'm working on called ProtegaText. The station had recently reported about a school who's level of trust is being torn from its community because of an inappropriate relationship between a teacher and student...
The Thin Book of Trust – Sincerety
I'm reading a book right now called The Thin Book of Trust. I'm hoping to gain a better understanding of building and maintaining relationships full of two-way trust in my business, my personal relationships, and in my family. The book highlights four key distinctions...
The F Words
Fear. Frustration. Failure. Fatigue. These are the F-Words in my life. I choose to FIGHT.
Strong Children Quote
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass
Post Tryptophan Thankfulness
So this past weekend we made a quick 4 day trip up to Northwest Pennsylvania to spend some time with the in-laws. It was a good trip, full of plenty of time to relax, unwind, and give thanks. It wasn't until I got home, though, that the depth of all I have to be...
Vision – Glimpses of the path
Back in college at Cedarville University I had this vision of my life taking the Bible to places it's never been in ways it's never gone before. In that glimpse, I figured it would be with a group like Wycliffe Bible Translators USA or JAARS or something like that....
Today – November 16, 2012
Went for another walk in the dark tonight. These are such good times. So much of life is non-stop. It has been good to start getting out in the dark, quiet, cold air. Spent the whole day doing on-site service for a long term client; didn't quite get everything done,...
Today – November 15, 2012
Interesting day. Lots of sub-stories these bullet points will trigger as I look back on today. Can you find the one thing I didn't really do? Stuffed my phone under the pillow so I wouldn't be able to hear the alarm go off. Overslept by an hour. "No, I'm not tired,...
Today – November 14, 2012
Another day gone by. Got a lot done today, it feels like. The day wasn't rushed, but it also was full. I didn't make a couple appointments I would have liked to have made, but every day has its decisions that must be made. Brian talked a bit about discipline on the...
