No one (least of all myself) likes to talk about suffering. However, I’ve come to realize over the past several years (especially, I guess, through the “Season of COVID”) that there is a great need to discuss it within…
The last few weeks have been busy ones; two weekend women’s retreats and one, ten day conference for “m” workers (global workers, ministry partners). I’ve loved every second of every minute. The conference took place on a cruise ship…
Monday swept into our lives like water rushing through broken pipes underground….and, actually that was (literally) part of the problem. The fact it was Monday, following a weekend of being away speaking at a women’s retreat, should have been…
Sometimes I sit with eyes wide at the harshness of Paul’s words to his beloved churches as he writes his letters. Often, what he says, or the way he says it, gets lost in our English translation; and, yet,…
A couple weeks ago, both Bay and I had our eyes checked in Oklahoma, where we had lens replacement surgery last summer. Over the months, both of us developed a filmy “opacification” that formed over our eyes that left…
This past weekend, I walked into a Walmart in Florence, Alabama and came face-to-face with an advertisement that stopped me on my trajectory to the pharmacy department. The ad was bright, bold, large enough that you couldn’t miss the…
Key Verse: Yesterday morning, in staff chapel at Ramsey Solutions (Dave Ramsey’s headquarters) outside of Nashville, Bay reminded me of a family story that we tell often. It is worth repeating with a little twist giving it some spiritual…
I love Charleston (we’re here for a board-recommended, wee vacation before moving on with our ministry trip). We visited here about ten years ago, and I fell hard. If I believed in reincarnation (I don’t), I’d think that I…
Just before Thanksgiving, my sweet sister-in-law, Sherri, gave me a waxed Amaryllis bulb she purchased at Trader Joes. That was my kind of a flowering plant. Other than making sure it had some good indirect lighting, I didn’t have…