It’s 3:00 a.m. and I hear you, cramming for Spanish’s semester ending. School. Work. Friends. It’s been a lot. Yet, I hear you my child. I hear the girl talks. The full hearted giggles. The way you teach and help and love your little sister. All of it. And I want you to know…. Love is […]
Day Starts. World says, “Go”. Run from the gates like a competing horse, in the Kentucky Derby. Be, “it all”. Just “do” more. But, I defy the nagging urging pressing me to stuff more….onto a plate, already full. Instead. I do something. Almost unheard of. In a life with my pace. In a culture that has […]
She is six. The same age as all those kids. Who just got shot. Her soft, pastel pajamas and bouncing braided pigtails, make their way downstairs. Towards me. It is morning. And mornings like this. Rich in His Word. Blinds me from silly things. And draws me….to my family. And those that really matter. And I […]
There is nothing like laying flat on your back for two days straight to put your mind in perspective. For sometimes standing straight up and plowing full force forward can delude ourselves to what we think we need to do…. And as my brother who has a large ministry for troubled teens continually says, “Humility isn’t […]
Who would think last weeks encouragement challenge would “strike a cord” with so many? As a result, we are continuing to UNITE our worlds, lives, families through encouragement again this week! Remember, NO RULES TO THIS LINK UP! Simply…. 1) Link up. 2) Encourage at least three people in your world. (Stranger, neighbor, friend, family member.) And […]
Twenty years. Twelve kids later. And I never heard the words, “Will you marry me.” I never said, “I do.” Yes, I stood at the alter. Sick with white dress. There with a holy man dictating commands, “over us.” But that was the law. Law than binds man and wife. I understood that. And we have […]