Every year our high school youth pastor hosts a graduation banquet for all the seniors. It’s a white linen tablecloth and candlelight event, with volunteer waiters from the church. Classy. This year I was asked to help decorate, and it was the first time I had any involvement in the preparation. This usually isn’t my…
I attended a high school graduation on Saturday and was impressed by something unique. Early in the ceremony the principal stood to address the class of over 300, and she began by saying, Would you please stand if you were involved in music, theater, or any of the arts while you were in high school….
This video is weighty, just to give you a heads up, but it so exactly parallels what church is like that I urge you to watch it. When I read that Jesus looks at crowds of people and has compassion for them, I imagine this is what He sees.
[WARNING: Long blog post. Grab a cup of coffee.] This is a true story: I spent six hours writing yesterday’s 164-word blog post. SIX HOURS. All morning I labored with the words, and by lunchtime I was frustrated and trying to decide whether to burst into tears or get on the treadmill. I chose the…
This is what the king has: Almost 600,000 brave fighting men equipped with shields, spears, and bows. (See 2 Chronicles 14:8-15 NIV for the whole story.) This is what he prays: Lord, there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us. We rely on you. In your name we have…
I am the woman who put Corelle Ware dishes on her bridal registry. Because I’m all about functional over beautiful. (This from a girl whose dad drilled holes and hung an old hand-operated wringer from the front of our house, so he could dry off his chamois after washing the car.) So there’s this cross…
My daughter’s college roommate made friends with some students from China, and one night they all went out to a Chinese restaurant together. Jayme and her roommate were given one menu. The Chinese students were given another menu, written in Chinese. The girls asked these students why they were given a different menu. Come to…
This is a picture of my dad, with a rubbing of his name I took from a site honoring those who served in the military from my hometown. My dad was in Vietnam when I was born, and I just enjoyed talking to him on the phone yesterday. My close friend’s dad served in Vietnam, but she never got…
Read this and consider that God is that kind of teacher.
A free gift for you today: Since it’s garden-planting time, I have posted a free Bible study on my website entitled Digging Up Dirt: Cultivating the Seed of Forgiveness. As you’re pulling weeds outside this week, consider how the weed of unforgiveness chokes the life out of us. I am THE worst at reflecting on past failures…
A few years ago I went to Matt’s 20th high school reunion with him. Would you like to know how excited I was to walk into a room full of a few hundred people whom he knew and I did not? I was really hoping for a stomach bug that would keep me home, but no…
Matt was tilling the garden, and I was mowing. I filled one of the huge outdoor trash sacks with grass and began trying to drag it across the yard to the driveway. Let me get that, said Matt. I kept dragging the sack, thinking, I’m a strong, capable woman. I’ve got this. I heard from…
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