A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
Owen was quiet and thoughtful on the way home from church last night. When I asked them all who had a good time he was hesitant and finally said, “I had a bad night in ministry team.”
Nine years of lanky growth and not a bit of it strong enough to h…
Oscar Wilde:
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
“You do not love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.”
Mark Twain:
“One is apt to overestimat…
The Fool has said in his heart, “there is no God.”
Psalm 14:1
I was thinking about this verse over the weekend. How we view the words foolish and wise. How we seem to think that a fool is simply a clown and a wise man must have great intellect.…
Yesterday morning I laid Aron’s clothes out for him in the living room. He was still eating breakfast in the kitchen and we were running late so instead of making him run upstairs to find clothes I decided to bring them down and help him dress once he…
The other night I was lying in bed and the skin at the back of my knee was itching like crazy. There wasn’t a bite or a rash or anything, I think the air had just dried my skin to the point of feeling unmercifully itchy. I scratched, calmed, scratched…
I’ve been listening to a sermon from last weekend about order.
It’s a revelation to me.
I’ve always believed that God is a God of order. This sermon laid it out in front of me in perfect timing. I was struggling. Struggling to believe I could…
Like many of you, I was not born thankful. It’s not a genetic trait that can be passed on from generation to generation. It has to be taught, it is learned in many ways, and it isn’t something we can simply define and then apply.
Driving to the camp site to speak to some lovely ladies about leadership, I knew I was not up to the task. I knew that I was not the leader I wished to be and therefore, I was certainly unqualified to share the intricacies of the subject.
Yet, here…
Four years ago we voted in America and the Republicans were disappointed and the Democrats were jubilant. I remember the slogans and the claims for “hope and change” that spurred many to vote for our first black president. He was supposed to be this m…
It seems I have been out for a while. I wonder sometimes if I’ll ever get back here and put these pages back on and if the words will still fit. I assume they will, but I need to find my hat. Not a literal hat, more of a literary one. My writing hat…