Being Grateful for Change
Recently my husband and I had a conversation around what words we would use to describe each other over the past few years. One of his words for me was heartbroken. At first, I thought…
A Gift Purchased with Blood
It’s pretty easy to buy presents for people these days. One-click on Amazon or Target or your store of choice and the present is purchased, wrapped, and shipped. But I want you to stop for…
Come to Him
Christmas. It’s the beginning of a new day. A new era. Instead of saying, “Go, perform well by following the law” (which no one could ever do), Jesus arrives and simply says, “Come!” For all of…
Magic Words
Every husband would love to have magic words that light up his wife’s heart. There aren’t any. But I recently picked up a couple of phrases that have helped us avoid contention and communicate better….
Debt Perception
As I’ve gotten older (42 now . . . but you know, age is just a number), I’ve begun to notice a few changes in my eyesight. I’ve had to add reading glasses of varying…
Unclaimed Grace
When I was 23 years old, I got my first promotion with AT&T, was put over the business office in Greenville, South Carolina and given responsibility for managing Betty, Mary and Janie. A few months…
Eucatastrophe
It seems like every day there’s another catastrophe. Another massacre, beheading, tornado or capsized ferry. With instant news and constant repetition, we’re hit in the heart with shocking events and bad news. But the God…
Counting on the Curve
Do you remember when a teacher or professor would grade on the curve? They’d give the test, take the scores and scale them out on a bell-shaped curve, declare the top 10% “A’s”, the bottom…
Amused and Amazed
Psalm 139 is intriguing. David says things like “You hem me in – before and behind,” and “Where can I flee from your presence?” and “Before a word is on my tongue, you know it…
Winning
We all want to win. These four guys won the Radical Mentoring Golf Classic on Monday. Tops among 22 teams. Since a defining characteristic of a mentor is humility, I remind these guys that the…
