November 6, 2017
Lord, Send Me
I live in a neighborhood that is full of family members, yet no one is home. Sometimes I long for the 1950's, when no one...
I live in a neighborhood that is full of family members, yet no one is home. Sometimes I long for the 1950's, when no one...
As Johnny and I headed out on our journey this past week, we did what most of us do today. Both of us typed our...
Dancing isn't the topic of many devotional messages, but stay with me. I learned a valuable lesson about God while watching a square dance lesson....
How is it that we often handle other people's bad news easier than their good news? Humans are funny like that, aren't we? As humans,...
The surreal event that changed America forever was showing when I turned on the TV early this morning. I was looking for an update on...
Most of the time when I'm driving around my town (40 years and counting) I go without noticing anything. But, every now and then, when...
Yesterday was one of those long travel days. A plane delay out of California caused a missed connection in Dallas where no more flights were...
Today millions of Americans pushed the pause button on life to watch God perform. Listening to all the warnings about shielding our eyes made me...
Family is our first look at community. It's in that space that we learn to share and be patient and put others before ourselves and...
My mom has a beautiful row of daylilies on the side of her house. Well, now they're beautiful. For most of their daylily life they...
While we can read books and learn from our mothers, a new baby is like a new set of cards--slippery, hard to manage, and can...
What is spring? It's bright colored azaleas and kids playing ball in the warm evening air and taking in that extra breath to smell the...
This past week one of my cousins lost his battle with cancer and gained his heavenly reward. He was a devoted servant of God who...
At a recent baseball game, our little pitcher, Aevin, was pitching an amazing game. The fans cheered him on as he struck out the opposing...
"Heard this song and thought of you," the text from Bella read. The song was Supermarket Flowers by British singer Ed Sheeran. One of the...
Why would someone wear suspenders but not really wear them? That's the question I asked myself as a young man walked past me with his...
Several years ago we stood with a crowd of interested citizens as one of our local colleges was forced to reduce a dorm building to...
We went snow skiing for the first time when I was 25 years old. Being from Louisiana, the six brave souls that we were, were...