quote of the day

“Don’t let your longings ruin your appetite for living.
- Jim Elliot

My God box.

This is something that I realized this week. Read on…
How big is your God box? I know you have one. For real, how big is it? Mine is too small, and I try to keep the top on it so He can’t get out.
I believe God can cure cancer… the worst kind. Stage one thousand [...]

Sweet, Sweet Jane Bradley,

You are named so well. I searched volumes of books and thousands of pages for a name that would have enough meaning, enough substance, and I have to say, I did something right. Who best to name you for than the most tenderhearted, giving, sweet-spirited person I have ever met? I pray that one day [...]

God crumbs

Stay with me…Let me explain…I am not saying that God is edible.  
 Today, I completed my commitment to the Salvation Army. However, it did not begin lightly. My first applicant really lassoed my attention. She was a young woman and thinner than most of the women that I had interviewed. Not really saying much, but you need [...]

Naive

So  I have been three times to the Salvation Army, and tomorrow is my fourth and last time. My job is to interview people, usually mothers, who are seeking emergency Christmas assistance through the Angel Tree program. Most people don’t know this, but each person who applies to participate must prove their poverty. They walk [...]

late night A.D.D.

It’s a really good thing that God doesn’t let us know ourselves all at once after we hit 18 or so. He knows we’re all a little A.D.D., and if we knew everything about ourselves we’d lose interest. Friday marks the craziest 3 month ride of my life, and I can honestly say that I’ve learned [...]

Bla Bla Blog

I think I’ve developed a new addiction. For years, seriously, YEARS, I have had this fear of writing anything about myself. It’s all because I wrote the latest second grade gossip in a confidential note to another second-grader who betrayed me and spilled the juice a bunch of other second-graders. Seven-year-olds are vicious. After the [...]

quote of the day

“Choose the one you love… love the one you choose.”
from the sermon “Promise” by Joseph Wheat

LYLAS

There is a story that I picked up somewhere in a junior high hall (probably the same one where I first heard the cheeseball title of this post) that went like this: There was this college professor who counted the final as the entire semester grade. The final was – suprise! – only one question, and it [...]

Preface

I feel the need to preface this site with some statement saying that nothing written here is meant to offend anyone etcetera, etcetera, but a statement like that would totally contradict the purpose of it. This site is killing two birds for me. One is that attempting some form of writing is one spot on [...]