Author: kmmccaleb

Courage and Honor

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An email from my dad… about my grandpa who is currently in the hospital recovering from surgery on a broken ankle. Love you Grandpa.

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In the background, a nondescript European hillside and to the discriminating eye, the tracks of a U.S. Army half-track…an M-3, I think. On the slope below, two happy young men. That’s dad on the left…smiling sixty three years ago on May 8th, 1945—the day Germany formally surrendered.

God bless him.

g.

A Relaxing Weekend

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I had begun to forget that “relax” and “weekend” can be used in the same sentence.

It has been the first relaxing weekend in many months. The first in many months where I didn’t have any schedule. The first in many months where I didn’t have any homework. Here’s how my weekend has gone:

  • Friday evening – ride and feel the stress of the week roll off as I trot around the polo field.
  • Friday night – girls’ movie night.
  • Saturday morning – sleep in, make a cup of hot tea, read my book.
  • Saturday lunch – Blue Star Cafe with Amy.
  • Saturday afternoon – massage and my first ever pedicure. (Thank you Amy for making me feel like a princess!)
  • Saturday evening – head for the barn to show off Caspian at the polo match, take pictures of Caspian, love on Caspian and just hang out with Caspian. You get the picture.
  • Saturday night – dinner out with folks from the barn. Conversation consisted of IBM, photography and, of course, horses.
  • Sunday morning – church and Sunday schoool, mini-photo shoot.
  • Sunday lunch – lunch at the Jones’.
  • Sunday afternoon – nap!
  • Sunday evening – head to the barn to ride or maybe just hang out and enjoy the weather. Or whatever I feel like doing, since I have no schedule for the rest of the day.

I think maybe I’ll be more ready for this Monday, since I’ll be rested. For the first time in many months.

New Series – Discovering Austin

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This year I want to discover more of Austin. So I, along with a couple friends, have decided to try a new Austin restaurant or bar once or twice a month.

Last night a few of us went to 219 West – a “multi venue bar and restaurant.”

They had amazing appetizers. I had the grilled asparagus with lump crab and it was perfect. If I could cook like that…

More reviews on Austin venues to come.

Sovereignty

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God is not like a firefighter who gets calls to show up at calamities when the damage is already happening. He is more like a surgeon who plans the cutting he must do and plans it for good purposes. Without the confidence that God rules over the beginning of our troubles, it is hard to believe that He could rule over their end. If we deny God His power and wisdom to govern the arrival of our pain, why should we think we can trust Him with its departure?

Let the bones which you have broken rejoice.
John Piper ~ Life as a Vapor