“Don’t judge my life choices.”  This is a funny phrase that my daughter says when we look at her funny for doing something like eating ice cream before dinner.  She may or may not have inherited her whimsical side from her mother.  I share her sentiment...

“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace.  In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 I have shared this verse countless times with individuals and groups whenever the topic of trials...

I have fond memories of going to grandma and grandpa’s house as a kid.  In fact, most of my memories revolve around them.  I will never forget the image of seeing one or both of them sitting up at the snack bar with a Bible open doing their daily reading....

I was catching up with a friend this week in Dallas, and she shared this cute story with me.  She and her husband are a few years more mature than I am, so they are getting ready for knee replacements soon.  Well, she told a story about someone she knew that...

Today, I want to quit.  I have tried to sit down to write today’s blog several time this week with absolutely no direction.  I will have an idea, pray about it, sit down to write a few sentences and then delete it all and stare again into the blank white...

Music speaks to me.  Always has.  When I was younger there was one particular song that spoke so loudly to my soul that it became a sort of theme song for my life. I have heard many other songs over the years that have spoken to the need of my heart, but...

I thought it was fitting this week, as the world acknowledges a day to celebrate love, to take a minute and talk about this phenomenon.  What is love?  How does it work?  Do we fall into it, step into it blindly, or grow into it?  If we can fall...

Yesterday would have been my dad’s 59th birthday.  He’s been celebrating his birthdays in Heaven now for 13 years. (Yes, I am aware that you probably don’t celebrate birthdays in heaven for all of you theology critics.  Let me have this.) The fact that he’s...