Aug 11, 2020 | adventure, Faith, Family, fear, Marriage, motherhood, trust
An old copy of “Singing in the Rain,” found by my son-in-law as we were packing our Grayson home late one night, became a place for all of us to take a break and practice what is called in literature as “black-out poetry.” We had so much...
May 31, 2020 | Faith, fear, Forgiveness, Grief, Hope, Life, love, peace, trust, warfare
I walked by this park bench in Knoxville, Tennessee, Friday morning. Tennis shoes and socks sat abandoned, as if the owner had decided he’d had enough. “Walk a mile in me,” they whispered. But as I stood there wondering why in the world anyone would...
Feb 13, 2019 | Doubt, faith, Faith, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Joy, love, peace, spiritual, storm, trust, warfare
He appeared for the very first time in Old Testament history a few chapters ago. Seemingly out of nowhere, Moses calls Joshua to battle saying, “Select some men for us and go fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with God’s staff in my...
Jan 4, 2019 | Bible, Faith, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Joy, Life, spiritual, trust
You don’t have to make it very far in your daily Bible reading to hear the words, “When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth…….” “The Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was deeply...
Nov 6, 2018 | Bible, Faith, Grief, Hope, Joy, Life, love, spiritual, trust
I hear the men working right outside my window as I type. Faint voices floating softly just above the sound of old asphalt being busted apart then scooped into a big truck. ________________________ Bits and pieces of our family story are imprinted on the piles of...
Mar 26, 2018 | Bible, Faith, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Joy, Life, love, spiritual, trust
I won’t deny it. There’s beauty in every winter snow…… even when it falls in spring. The calendar can’t control its arrival any more than we can. And with world-hushing power, it has a way of uniting all creation under its blanket....