You're busy. I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. How can you still do "all the things" you need to do with the love of Christ? How can that make your service meaningful? This week, I've been resting. Seriously. Weeks ago, a friend asked me to accompany her to a conference, and I told her I would. Then life happened. I completely forgot the dates of ...
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How to Keep Your Focus on Christ
It's the last day of October, and the pecans are starting to fall a little more slowly so this might just be the last of my pecan picking parables. I hope you'll bear with me once more because over the past few weeks I've realized how hard it can be for me to stay on track, to focus. It really shouldn't come as such a big surprise. The unfinished projects ...
5 Lessons Learned in the Harvest
Learning Life Lessons while picking pecans - who would've thought? But here are 5 Life Lessons Learned in the Harvest. One week left of October, and Mississippi has finally realized it's fall. The temperatures are falling, and so are the pecans. I spend hours each day walking circles around the trees, picking up the nuts one by one and thinking about life in ...
Do Not Give Up – The Harvest Will Happen
Our home is surrounded by really old pecan trees. They're beautiful, but to be honest, they haven't been really useful. They simply don't make pecans. Truly. Most people get more pecans from one tree than we usually get from scores of them. Some years, the trees have been almost completely empty. In fact, the only year that we actually had pecans in plenty was the ...