Southern-Fried Wisdom 1 Lay Down with Dogs, You Get Fleas I grew up in Texas. Strange thing about Texas is that sometimes people want to say something without saying…
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Three Steps Back, Three Steps Forward Have you ever been betrayed by a friend? I know what you are thinking: Please, give me a dollar for every time that has…
Easter has always meant something special in our house. When I was a kid it meant new clothes for church, a basket, a bunch of people at church I hadn’t…
Wrestling with God This morning I was reading in Genesis and was struck by a story I read. It is the story of Jacob returning home to meet his brother…
I was thinking the other day as I made one of my favorite things in the world: Grape Kool-Aid. Since I was a kid, it has been my favorite Kool-Aid. …
2 Eulogies to Remember In the last four days I’ve performed two funerals. They could not have been anymore different and yet anymore the same. As I sit back this…
Judged by Our Best Day Every one of us has one of those days. We get out of bed and after a couple of minutes we wonder why. Then to…
Ash Wednesday – The Handprint of God In the Genesis narrative about the beginning of everything it is interesting to read how things occurred. As you read through the story,…
Good Grief? Part 2 Last time we began a discussion about death and preparing ourselves for our own death and for the death of someone close to us. We constantly…
Good Grief? Part 1 In my line of work, I get to celebrate some of the greatest days families share together. Births of babies, graduations, weddings & baptisms are the…