Time has literally escaped from under my feet! I have been meaning to update the Journal for a while, and truthfully just haven’t got around to it. Today seems a good day for me to take a moment to play ‘catch-up’, and although much has been happening in the wake of 2011 I really wanted…
Author: Pastor Vic
I created this space as a welcoming home for candid life discussions, faith, and purposeful community. My journey has been anything but conventional—from navigating childhood moves to Europe, spending 40 years in the printing industry, and living across two vastly different worlds in Zimbabwe and the United States, God has spent decades quietly forming my heart before officially calling me into pastoral ministry. Recently ordained and commissioned as a pastor, I write from a place of real, lived experience, openly sharing the highs of deep faith alongside the raw seasons of depression, doubt, and navigating life's unexpected detours. Since establishing this journal back in 2005, my mission remains simple: to listen without judgment, share honest testimonies, and encourage you to slow down, press pause, and discover how to shine brightly for Jesus in our everyday lives.
Hole in One; the Importance of Team Work
John my neighbor and I were chatting the other day. He is 93 and enjoys a game of golf with his buddies. He was telling me how his eyesight is failing, and the DMV won’t renew his license so he can no longer drive, let alone see where he is going most of the time….
The Ground Zero Poll
What are your thoughts on the proposed construction of a Mosque in the vicinity of Ground Zero? Your comments and votes are welcome; one of the freedoms we still enjoy. [polldaddy poll=3642111] Related Articles New Yorkers: 63% Oppose Mosque, Will Impact Votes In Fall (riehlworldview.com) Thumbs down – Bad reviews for remarks on mosque (politico.com)…
God Gave Me You
Just finished listening to a song by Dave Barnes – God Gave Me You (for the ups and downs), and as I listened to the lyrics it dawned on me that for sure some people are put across our path by the Lord for a specific reason, be it for good or bad. Ah how…
Keeping It Simple
I often marvel at the technology that is available at our fingertips and the freedom we have today to share information across a multitude of platforms. It was in 1995 that I sat in my office with an internet technician hooking up my computer to the “internet” via a “dial-up” modem. At the time I had no…
When Life goes from Bad to Worse
“I was pretty sure I understood what God was asking me to do. I was obedient. I took the next steps…but now I’m wondering if I got it all wrong. Instead of things going right they seem to be getting worse!” Sound familiar? We think we understand what God is asking of us, but the…
Friend or Brother?
Remember back in the day the teacher would assign a topic and then we would have to write an essay and hopefully get good marks when we turned the paper in? I am glad those days are over, and today prefer to be organic – if it means something to me I will share it,…
He Sees You!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emLH07k–s0] It’s quite strange how life comes at us with interesting situations that we can’t figure out or understand, and proceed to think we are the only ones going through whatever it is that is troubling us. The good news is that even when people around us fail, when systems no longer work, and when…
Bloggers’ Block
Never quite understood how authors could not possess the ability to write “anything” even when they didn’t feel like it – and that there is such a thing as writers’ block. I have come into one of those places recently where I can sit and stare at the screen and not have anything cross my…
What have we become?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmknOKkaPEI] “For nearly an hour, he lay on the ground as passers-by turned their heads to look at him, gawk or pause and walk off. One lifted his body to reveal blood on the sidewalk. By the time emergency workers arrived, he was dead.” Courtesy Associated Press. Captured on surveillance camera, this week in New York,…