The child with a swollen head. Just one light. The fuzzy-backed baby screamer. Just one light. The little girl who bit me, scratched her thigh with fingernails, tried to jump out of my moving vehicle. Just one light. The beautiful boy whose gone. Just one light. This world of fostering is like running into a forrest, […]
Billy Graham Faith in an Insulated, Isolated, Muted Christian Era
Uniter of a country divided by race. A preacher. Refusing to separate color, culture or ethnicity. Isolation didn’t stop him. Traveling Australia to South Korea, London to behind the Iron Curtain. 400 crusades, 185 countries, and six continents. He gave spiritual counsel to presidents and kings, be-friending Dwight Eisenhower, Lydon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Senior Bush, Jimmy […]
How to Raise Our Children to NOT Become Shooters
My feet had no choice but to step on the campus the morning after a provoked teacher threatened to kill all the children, forcing the staff to watch. Old red, white, and blue, dangled in the bright, cloudless sky. I was told the testing for one of my kids would take around two hours. I checked […]
When You Just Need Some Rest From This Chaotic, Collapsing World
Horizontal fingers have been flying all around, lately. Like a game of “Who dun it?” where we each become detectives. Each particpatants in some crazy mystery, trying to solve, discover, have opinions about why the world is collapsing. Floridian children lie in body bags, and our finite minds want answers, understandably. Cancer spreads without asking questions, […]
What I Learned from my Parents the Day they Gave My Dog Away
Smart. Alive. Extremely affectionate. I can’t remember where we got Shelby, but her coloring resembled a malamute, possibly mixed with a little Norwegian Elkhound or Husky. Her tail curled up, encircling her backside with lush white fur. And I remember as a child, just sitting along the windowseal, staring out at her dancing around the back […]
In Debt? How Much Do You REALLY Owe?
4:30 a.m. I randomly run across a pastor describing his old porn addiction. “I asked God to let me reach the nations”, He describes. “But my addiction remained.” He went on…“It wasn’t until my prayer changed, freedom came. It changed to, ‘God let me know you more.’” He explains, we must get to that place of […]