Posts by KARL HOSTETLER

If you have been following my journey you have probably noticed that I occasionally post what I have been doing, things like hobbies that I am relearning, or working on my house. That had been part of my recovery. Unfortunately, this isn’t that. It isn’t something that I have been working on, at least since my stroke. But still, I am going to call this something that…

For practicing writing, for practicing thinking, for processing what is happening in my life, and because it is so important, I thought I would share some of my worldview. Everyone has a worldview of some type. You have one, even if you have never thought about it. It is a foundation that we build upon to understand this world we live in. Hence the name, worldview.    I…

So far, I have one entry on my newly made bucket list.  Hiking up Cucamonga peak. Or maybe it could be more aptly called a list of seemingly impossible dreams. After all, I can’t hike. I can walk for one and a half miles, as long as it is dead level. But 12 miles and 4000’ of elevation change–well it seems impossible.  So maybe it isn’t actually…

It started 54 years ago. And it started in Sears, Roebuck and Company.  Maybe you remember the store, half of it was in Montclair and half of it in Pomona, right there at the end of Indian Hill Blvd. In the middle of the store there was a wide lane running right through the store, and the county line between LA and San Bernardino ran right through…

I have been thinking about the statement I penned in my first bible. Something I wrote 36 years ago, "Every promise of God within this book I intend to believe; every command of God within this book, I purpose to keep.”  I wonder if it was foolish to say that. How often do I fail to do that? To think that I could ever do that, all…

I’m done with studying the bible. Maybe you think I’m kidding, but no, I am done with bible study.  I have three bibles. More than that actually, I probably have a dozen bibles. One-year bibles, different translations, both my parent's bibles, yeah, a lot of bibles, for the most part they live on shelves. But I have had three bibles that didn’t live on shelves. The ones…

I grew up on a mountain. Okay, more like a hill. Actually, we lived in the foothills beneath the San Gabriel mountains. Whatever you want to call it, it was a wonderful place to grow up. Exploring the nature that surrounded us, hiking the foothills, going up the creek at Cucamonga canyon, and of course, dirt bike riding.  It was a good mountain to live on, okay,…

I have been working on a post for a couple weeks, but it has not come together.  Lots of ideas, but nothing concrete. I like to work through my thoughts by writing about them. But that didn't happen this time. So, I am turning the page on a couple of weeks writing, I am starting over with a blank page. There is something about turning a new…

Some of the things that I have been writing about are things I felt I had to say.  That has made it easier to write about.  This is not like that; this is more of an exercise in writing. I am going to write about a step of faith. We'll see how it goes. We had a wonderful church service this Palm Sunday, and at least five…

People always ask how I am doing.  Not because it’s expected, like, “ I'm fine, thanks for asking”,  but because they really care how I'm doing. So I thought I would answer the question. If you don’t know,  I am doing this as a way to relearn how to write. So be forewarned, there will be some writing happening before the answer.   I am in a support…