Today I was considering how often I have to hunt for scissors and I remembered how my Daddy always carried a knife. He was often using it. To cut a rope for a tarp on a truck, to clean out around the rim of something, to clean his nails while scrubbing his hands, etc....
There are certain points in the faith journey that resonate with those who embark on it. Reading about the life of Oswald Chambers tonight I came across this gem: While in a church meeting as a college student he stood and said, “Either Christianity is a...
“A ragamuffin knows he’s only a beggar at the door of God’s mercy.” Bill and I are watching the story of Rich Mullins….and the impact Brennan Manning had on him. Some are ragamuffins…..and God loves us just as we are! My Mother...
Scandalous…… Pastors seem to be only somewhat less likely to be involved in scandals these days than anyone else…….as attested to by some statistics in a recent sexual ethics workshop for clergy. People are still people, subject to the same...
I turned 69 last week. I was 15, in Southwest GA, in 1969 when the events portrayed in this movie were going on. I saw it around the fringes. But the longing that drove it was present in me, too. It would be a long journey of 23 years before the longing in me was...
Master Artists exhibition at Laguna Beach Christian Retreat with Titus 2 friends: 2/21/2015 I took my book about the painting- “Forgiven” by Thomas Blackshear, that my daughter gave me for Mother’s Day in 1997 with me to an art show in...
