The world is an expert at advise. Walk into any bookstore and you can see the shelves lined with how-to’s, need-to’s, and have-to’s. We’ve become unsympathetic to others dark valleys, but increasingly reflective and exaggerated about our own inner dwellings. We keep company with a world holding magnifine glasses to our every flaw, our open scars, […]
When You Wait and Wait, But Still Can’t See His Promises Fulfilled
Imagine being one hundred years old. The body that once ran and leaped, twisted and turned, now infertile, barren, “dead”. “Dead” was the description God gave both Abraham and Sarah’s body. And yet, Abraham clung to a promise, the promise that “numerous would be” his descendents. (Romans 4:18) There are times in our lives where we […]
When Skies go Dark, there is a Promise; He is For You
Rays of light dart to the ground, through the smoke-colored clouds painted upon the sky. A thin layer of lower stratus lines whisp speedily in time with, “The Blessing”, a song on my car radio, declaring His goodness upon a thousand generations. And I struggle with words sometimes. Struggle, in the storm, to hold down a […]
A Haunting Question from My Teacher, Mr. Handley
Barely double digits, I remember it well. The stairs on the side of a smaller, white building, led down to the place I gathered each Sunday. One might think it was bleak. I can’t remember many windows. And the floor, I believe, was cement. Yet, as we unstacked chairs on Sunday mornings, I couldn’t wait for […]
How to Not Drown in Do’s & Don’ts
Of the millions of hits I have received on this blog, the most popular by far is “20 Do’s and Don’ts for a Lasting Marriage”. It’s not even a post, really, but a list of things put on my heart to share, as I have experienced marriage for twenty-eight plus years. And it’s become clear over […]
What is the Obsession with the Gabby Petito / Brian Laundrie Case?
On July 2nd, 2021, twenty-two year old Gabby Petito left with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie in her converted “Garden on Wheels”. (Aka white van, turned into a mobile living space) On September 1st, twenty-three year old Brian returned to his home in Florida, with Gabby’s van, but without her, after accessing $1,000 from her credit cards. Once […]