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Easter: A Reason to Rejoice
Have you ever had one of those seasons in life where “the hits keep coming?” It feels like lately every time we turn around, it’s something else. A kid that needs eye therapy or an expensive car repair. Employees that leave and clients who decide not to be clients any more. Rejections from publishers or, even…
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A Love Story Worth Telling
I recently read a story about gospel artist Bryan Popin and how he and his wife met. Prior to the release of his latest album “You Can Make It,” gospel artist Bryan Popin experienced many difficult moments through which he learned to persevere. Perhaps none was more life-changing than when performing at a conference just…
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The Door And The Barking Dog
I stood at the door once again. I could hear the dog on the other side barking, and he didn’t sound as evil as everyone was making him out to be. I could even hear an occasional whimper as he begged me to open the door. Maybe this time it would be different, I told…
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Sacred Service
I stood at the back of the room dressed in a tuxedo shirt and bow tie with black pants. The emotions caught me by surprise. As I looked around the room, I saw familiar faces. I looked at the person on stage. I used to be that person, the one standing on the stage in…
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Two Worlds
A baseball game in July in Tennessee. An all black team versus an all white team playing for the World Series Championship. Two black umpires. LaVergne versus Brentwood. One loud crowd and one quiet. One with chants and cheers and one with jeers and golf claps. I hate it. I hate the bad calls. I…
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Good vs. Bad
I’ve been realizing lately that I have two columns running through my head all day long. One column keeps all the good things I’ve done and one keeps all the bad. Mostly it’s good mom vs. bad mom. I have been realizing how often I tell myself I’m a bad mom in one form or…
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Bad Mom
I’m sitting at a brown table built with 2×4’s under the shade of a green umbrella. Sounds of children playing bounce back and forth. Above it all, I hear my daughter Hope bossing around the other kids, telling them how to play the game. I hear a mom correct her child, followed by the familiar…
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Free Advice Friday: I believe in God. I just don’t think He is good and kind.
Okay…so I stole this one from The Wally Show on WayFM. Wally used this comment from his email as a 10-second topic about whether God is good. He asked what you would say to this person, so that got me thinking… What if the only part of planet earth that you experienced was the desert?…
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Lessons from the Wasteland: Lean Not
When I was little, there was a ditch near our house where we would often play. We put a board across the ditch to be our bridge. I have a memory of my brother using a long stick to poke around in the shallow water underneath. One day he put the stick in the water…
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Let Others Tell You Who You Are
This video made by Dove has been widely viewed online. It was a very interesting experiment with a forensic artist. He sketched women as they described themselves to him and then he sketched the same woman based on how someone else described her. The difference was very telling. We don’t do a good job describing ourselves.…
From Ice Queen to Princess 