As this decade comes to a close, I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting and thinking about all that has transpired in my life over the past ten years. In doing so, three words have kept returning to my mind: Sickness Singleness Salvation When I received salvation in November of 2009, just two months before […]
They say a picture says a thousand words but, to me, this picture said at least fifteen-thousand. It was our family vacation photo taken on the last day of our 2011 trip to Hilton head. There were fifteen of us in attendance – two brothers, two sister-in-laws, two parents and eight nieces and nephews. We […]
Is it wrong for Christians to online date? This was the question I typed into the Google search bar under the cover of night, yielding 10.4 million results in 3.4 seconds. It was comforting to know that I’m not the only one wondering whether or not God approves of Christians looking for love online. Given […]
“The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgement.” Tonight, I found this quote on my herbal tea bag and was struck by how profound it is – especially that last word, “judgement.” Judgement means you have to make a decision on something in particular. You have to come to a conclusion. But […]
Two years ago, by this time in the evening (9:15 PM), I would have been asleep – or close to it. Two years ago, I used to retreat to my room around 7:30 or 8:00, although my contacts left my eyes and PJS went on my body hours earlier. Each night, not long after dinner, […]
This too shall pass… For far too long I held onto those words like a prayer, banking on them really. Like a wish, I cast that desperate sentiment up to the throne of heaven, imploring God to make my physical distress pass… and quickly. When the pain in back refused to relent, I called on […]
For as long as I can remember I’ve heard about Southern hospitality but have questioned whether or not the phenomenon is true. Does geniality really corollate with geography? I doubted it until I moved to Tennessee. In just two short months, Tennessee has made me a Southern hospitality believer. What can I say? People are […]
Back in the ninth grade I was told by a teacher that I tend to be “brutally honest”. He went on to warn that, at times, that tendency would “get me in trouble.” He should have added “with the world” because that’s the only place honesty gets a person in trouble. Honesty– even when it’s […]
“Hey, l like your haircut!” My head spun around as if it were on a swivel. Who was the unfamiliar voice talking to, I wondered. And could I get the name of their hairdresser? But, when I looked behind me, there was no one there. Confused, I turned back around, thinking I must have been […]
I stood paralyzed in the doorway, staring at Pippy laying lifeless in a Rubbermaid box on the living room floor. To think that she would never again experience the wind blowing through her ears or prance at the park overwhelmed me with shock, disbelief and heartbreak. I cried, desperately hoping it was all a terribly […]