sitting on the porch after supper tonight my soul flooded with emotion I had a lovely chat with a dear, dear friend today (actually I had two great chats in the garden center at the store today) one of the conversations was with a precious woman who invested much of her soul into my soul at…
“We live in a state of losses..” I believe it. Our youth is fleeting. Just ask the cowboy’s back or the elasticity of my skin. Children are becoming adults.. growing some days from one size to the next with each breath. Many losing money with the next Dow report. Perfect relationships today -signed and…
“Will y’all pray that I won’t be so greedy?” “so greedy..” As if a dab of greed were okay. The same lame prayer. The same lame words. The same lame heart. For years. Lame. The bills didn’t stop because the shopping and charging hadn’t stopped. Day after day I checked the mail. Week after week…
We were gathered round the campfire after a great day at the beach.. Pop, the MawMaw and the cowboy reminiscing about old boy scout camping trips while the littles scavenged around the campsite gathering necessary ingredients.. Leaves, sand, sticks, seashells, sand, water, supper scraps and sand… Did I mention sand? When the youngest declared, “SAND SOUP…
“ye shall know the truth and the Truth shall make you odd.” I LOVE, LOVE this morning’s quote from IF:Equip and Shauna Niequist This past weekend I was given the privilege to speak at Ponderosa Bible Camp …the final challenge I left with the campers was to “LIVE BOLD! LIVE BRAVE” for Jesus…In between sessions…
this is where I’m at this morning… Balance is a vicious battlefield…trying to nail down or hold up all the life stuff … Your fill-in-the blanks look a bit different than mine but I feel certain you’re trying to balance your fair share of life as well.. My fill-in-the blanks look something like this….wife, mother…