I keep fighting the urge to apologize for how dreary my blog posts have been lately, but then I remind myself you come here freely and then I feel less guilty about the genuine out pour of my sad heart. Do not be mislead though...
The other night I posted a picture of my tear-stained face on Instagram. (Ok...
When I was eighteen I was in a major car accident. My first weekend of college, I was heading back to campus and I happened to hydroplane and then flip my car on an Atlanta interstate. For a few seconds, my life slowed to a...
"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." {Henry James} When I was a youngster, I was intrigued by light bulbs. In the same way that I was unable to stop staring...
In 6th grade, Tony Moore called me fat. I was a good two feet taller than him with hips as wide as his shoulders. I was an inch away from being the same height I am today -- a good 5'8''. Average for a young adult...
"So bear with people that their unpleasantness and maliciousness and cruelty will never drive us to bitterness, that their unteachableness will never drive us to despair, that their folly will never drive us to irritation and that their unloveliness will never alter our love."*The world...
Tomorrow is the celebration of an event that -- like so many others -- has been dwindled down to pastel colors, spring fever, colored eggs, furry, cute field animals, and the second (only to Halloween) highest candy selling holiday of the year. But it is truly...
Remember that time when my nana told me my whole life that she woke up one morning, after turning twenty-five, and she realized what life was and so, thus, when I turned twenty-five the world magically made more sense -- colors brightened, details increased, and...
I don't want to forget this feeling. I don't want to forget this moment where all my nerve ending feel as if they are exposed. My body turned inside out. Just a close brush to the skin might be too much. It might make me pull back in reaction...
I've said before that I learn a lot from my kids in Waumba Land. Those little four year olds have some deep insight. They also have simple curriculum for young, developing minds, which is helpful for older, finished developing, still-needing-simple(r)-theology minds. Sometimes I truly do not...
