“Gratefulness is more than a feeling that comes over us when good things happen. It’s an active search to notice and be present to the goodness already around us — gaining eyes to see and ears to hear the abundance God has woven into the world.” (...
Each morning I stir awake, check the time projected in red digital numerals on my ceiling from the bedside clock, remind myself of what day it is, then reach for my phone to open the seedbed.com daily Wake Up Call devotional. Before Bill died our morning routine was...
The ISAAC PRINCIPLE revisited: Several years ago I read Carol Kent’s book, “When I Lay My Isaac Down.” From that and other things God was using in my life at the moment, I discovered what I have come to call The Isaac Principle: It is in the...
From November 6, 2015…. “Today on my way home from a trip with a student, we made a detour through my family’s hometown, Clayton, AL. I stopped at the cemetery next door to the United Methodist Church there to visit my Daddy’s grave. The...
This past week one of our topics in the parenting/re-parenting class for women at Titus 2 was the instruction to teach our children to “suffer well” if we want them to live effectively in a defective world, they must learn this skill and adopt this...
This is a cross made from 2 eights. In my sweet symbolic language with God 8 is the number of infinity, eternity, uncertainty, unknowing, the posture of trust. In the vertical it is in relationship to God. In the horizontal it is in relationship to others. The cross...
