Let's face it: relationships are hard. Even the best of them. If you know someone long enough and well enough, they will hurt you. They're people. Perfectly imperfect in every possible way. Sometimes it would be easier to just go your own way and forget them. But don't. Because people are worth it. They're worth the effort... to get to know them…. to let them ...
31 Days
The world is wide.
It's nap time, and I'm sitting here sipping some coffee straight from Kenya and nibbling a bit of dark chocolate and thinking how perfect they taste together on this Mississippi afternoon. As I savor the rich flavor that comes only from Kenya, I think of coffee farms and tea fields, and if I close my eyes, I can almost feel the wind on my face and the warmth of the sun beating ...
God is good. All the time.
We live in a world where a lot of bad things happen. We live in a world where people do a lot of bad things. The question you'll hear from many who hurt is, "If God is good, why would he…." And, it's a hard question to answer sometimes. Sometimes our hearts cannot reconcile the fact that God CAN do something with the fact that he DOESN'T. And we doubt his ...
I Want My Kids to Know Dreams Do Come True
I want you to know that dreams do come true. Now, take a moment, please, and push any images of Disney aside. Let's talk dreams, not fairy tales. The stuff of real life. Unless you'd like to kiss a frog? Dreams. The inner longings of your soul. Deep down in there. Deep enough no one else knows about them. Maybe you don't even know them yet. But you ...