A Link for You to Ponder on This Sunday Morning
God wants you to use the gifts he has given you. You won’t wait five years to be brave, will you?
A Story of a Generally Selfish Girl and Green Bean Love
Hey guys, This is the day for green beans with crunchies on top, which reminds me of a story of yesteryear. (Does that sound cool if I say yesteryear?) We had stuffed ourselves on wild turkey fed to us by dear friends, and then we loaded up our leftovers and headed to the church. I…
A Link for You to Ponder on This Sunday Morning
This link is for my little girl, but y’all should watch it, too. Honey, you are about the most generous spirit I’ve ever met, and I have no doubt God has and is going to use you to change people’s lives. Big bills. Little bills. Operation Christmas Child boxes. Subway card handed out the car window to…
Prepping for “How Was Your Day?”
Within a half an hour I heard it twice. First it was my man on the phone, calling me on his way home from work. How was your day? he said. Nothing spectacular. Well, it’s not always specatular, he said. Then it was my dearest friend and neighbor wondering if I had any Ro-Tel tomatoes,…
joy | service | work ethic
Don’t Just Work, Work Happy
That man of mine swung home and took me out for lunch. It was just a quick bite at a fast food place, but it was a precious hour with him. Then there was the girl at the counter who looked at me with dead eyes and smiled not. Nor did she ask how she…
You Don’t Have To Be Good at Everything
Yesterday I attended my first pep assembly at the Christian school where I teach. The state volleyball and soccer tournaments begin today, so we needed to make some noise. I snuck up to the top of the bleachers, out of the fray. I didn’t know what to expect, as it had been, umm, a short…
joy | perseverance | service | writing
What If You Were to Repeat Your Good Work Hundreds of Times?
This is me opening my front door and inviting you in for a little party. Pretend my house is clean and there are homemade cream puffs and sugar cookies on the table, arranged in tiers around a Martha Stewart centerpiece. PRETEND, I said. Because this is my 500th blog post. Cue confetti. October 30, 2011…
compassion | joy | justice | knowing God | marriage | service
What Would You Do If You Finally Had Enough Money?
I sat down on the plastic chair in front of the table, and the man placed a form in front of me. I couldn’t read it, my eyes swimming with tears. Setting down the pen, I buried face in hands and cried win-the-lottery, can’t-believe-I’m-finally-doing-this, dream-coming true tears. Months ago God put this in front of me, the same months…
Ibuprofen and Serving God
He called on his way home from fly fishing, Get out the ibuprofen. Putting his foot down on a loose, slippery rock in the river, he twisted his already gimpy ankle. We rarely have conversations during the day that don’t include assessment of our physical bodies. Every morning Matt hobbles down the stairs on stiff…
A Link for You to Ponder This Sunday Morning
This is what it means to serve God. He is the center and has invited us to join in his work. If we play our part along with him, it is beautiful. “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians…
Your Life, God’s Imagination
Decades ago I sat in my middle school library and breathed out a simple prayer, Lord, I wish someday I could write Bible studies for people. At the time it seemed a ridiculously impossible dream. I thought only a few people turn into those famous writers, and I seriously doubted I would ever be one…
Remembering We Are Receivers
Here’s a true story in the life of a blogger: Yesterday I could think of nothing to write. I was still dragging from a long week of vacation followed by a busy weekend, and all day long I prayed my usual prayer, Lord, what would you have me write today? By 10:00 at night I…
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