I sent my daughter off to her last day of high school ever today. She’s my last. These are the lasts of all the lasts. Excuse me while I have a moment here. Where are the tissues? So I decided to ease into my day. I took a minute to pause with my tea and my Bible on my porch ...
Have you ever seen It’s a Wonderful Life? If you’re like me, you’ve watched it a hundred times. And it never gets old. George Bailey is feeling sorry for himself. So much is going wrong he starts thinking life would be better for everyone if he was never born. The angel Clarence takes him on that very journey, and he ...
Discouragement. It seems to be lurking around every corner and hiding behind every tree. At times I go for weeks and months without a hint of it. Then…..there are seasons I go to bed feeling like a failure and wake up in a deeper hole than the night before. Can I get a witness? Discouragement has an assignment – intimidate us into ...
Rest. It can be elusive. We’re constantly bombarded with images and screens and noise and crisis. The cacophony of the news in one room and the game in the other and dogs barking and kids fighting and……The mind is always moving. Churning. Thinking. Grappling with problems that overwhelm until we’re exhausted. Weighed down with burdens too big to bear. I just ...
When Mikel and I were dating, oh so many years ago, he pursued me. Relentlessly. It was awesome. He sent flowers and letters. He wrote me poems. He called and we’d talk for hours. He’d drive 12 hours home from school just to see me and turn around and drive 12 hours back 36 hours later. Young love sure does some ...