Category: Gratitude

The email was a welcome bit of encouragement: you are not forgotten, I pray for you and your family, your work. There was a simple…

Here I am, sitting in a hotel room more than 9,000 miles from my home in Tennessee, and I should be spending the evening reviewing…

I recently received word that a friend and supporter of our ministry had died following a brief respite in hospice for brain cancer. Slightly older…

This isn’t a milk and honey season for us. Everything– time, money, the ability to stop and simply be present for a few hours each…

So much of this holiday is focused on the many, many gifts and blessings with which we have been showered. And while yes, technically we…

We’ve had a bug slowly meandering through our family, afflicting members one by one, bringing this one some sniffles and nothing more, leaving that one…

I’ve spent a lot of time lately pondering the innate upside down truths of the Gospel. Dying to live. Loving enemies. The meek inheriting the…

I’m not quite sure why or when I started dumping my spare change in a small tin canister that once held a Christmas gift for…

This past Saturday was a pretty decent Saturday, as they go for teenagers. I slept in, (thank you, Mom,) relaxed in the morning, played a…

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