Author: “Advent: A Thread In The Night” “Nightscapes: Poetry from the Depths” Cohost of the Bible Time podcast. Pastor of Grace Baptist Church Vermillion SD
South Dakota, USA
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True love is your wife bringing you two motel coffees because one isn’t enough. @racheljwelcher
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Evan could write about fleas and he would make it funny, beautiful, and profound.
This time he’s writing about America and Christians’ complicated relationship with happiness, and it’s perfect.
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My family and I were strolling downtown hunting for ice cream and some old gray longhair boomer at a sidewalk bar (is that a reality now?) says to me regarding my 4 year old girl,
“She’s gunna give you gray hair!”
Cackles.
I reply: “She’ll be a blessing all my days.”
Today is our 9th anniversary.
There was a time, a decade or so ago when it seemed as the grave had stolen any spectral of happiness.
It seemed to me that I needed to be a husband, and that I was one who needed to love and caretake, and to be loved would be gladness to my soul.
Now I still wonder around writing poems while dodging stacks of books, but there’s a wife, and the pidder padder of tiny feet, and so much more to dodge in a full and lively house.
Rachel made sure I didn’t die without issue, and she is the most brilliant mind to live with.
