The pastor I listened to today told us about Sheep 101 and my little word picture mind lit up zonkers. I ate my lunch and went straightaway to my computer to find this whimsical website. I’ve grown up in church. I know the whole “dumb sheep” thing we humans are compared to. It always struck …
My girl saw me reach for the computer and start to walk out of the room. “I like it when you’re here with me,” she said. So, I sit where she can see me from the next room and it’s not lost on me that that is a grace for the day. To be near …
There’s this thing I do. Think too much. And sometimes? I wake myself up thinking. How is this possible? It used to be a thing I arm wrestled. But now, it feels like a gift. Because I get to sit quiet and unwrap the time, just me and Him. And sometimes He whispers things to …
My friend just sent this picture of my girl at her first high school retreat. She woke up this morning with snot dripping mightily down her throat and barely able to talk. When I was her at 15? I’d have looked for a way out of this retreat because it would have screamed intimidating to …
Truly. .the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him; who wait for His faithful care–Psalm 33 That wait thing….that’s what grabbed me this morning as I sat out alone on the farthermost point of the school ball field, praying. I read it again. And then again. In my head and then out …