I’m just home from seeing my boy graduate college. It took him seven years but not for not being full of living. He spent a year in Africa in film school, He joined the navy reserves so he could help finance his own college studies. He rode a helicopter and took news footage. The boy …
….said the young soul, looking up at me through black rimmed glasses, thoroughly convinced of the lie. His eyes were wide and his mouth was set firm with the harsh words he’d just heard. He believed them. And he was astonished. “No. He doesn’t.” “YES. He DOES. He TOLD me. I wasn’t supposed to tell …
“So. We’re not giving up. How could we! Even though, on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without His unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish …
It is. Well. With my soul. We sang that acapella tonight at the concert I went to with my girl. Audience voices quiet and reverent…swelling there at the end. There was a time recent when it wasn’t well. So I quiet listened to the voices and didn’t join in. I just wanted to savor the …
I had time to kill after school. My girl had an activity that would keep her for longer than I had activities to fill it. I left the grocery store and felt lost as soon as I got in the car. “I don’t know what to do, God. Where to go.” “Nancy.” Clear as …