Jesus treats me as he knows I can be, not as I’ve proven to be in the past. He doesn’t operate under fear that I’ll let him down…again. He says he doesn’t even remember what happened last time I hurt him. He sees my potential. Not my past. It’s a real innocent until proven …
Rip Van Winkle, Ethan Frome, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. These are some of my favorite stories. Because I hate nagging. I’m terrified of it. I’ve never had a ‘honey-do’ list, I think up creative ways to remind my kids to do things, and if I ask a friend for a favor and they …
I sawed the top off my favorite living room plant. As I painted tree-wound tar on the open end, I hoped and prayed it would grow again. This wasn’t totally crazy. The tree’s growth had been slowing for a year. Each new growth weaker and sicker than the last. The lush green of its first …
“Look! There’s a Mustang.” My 9-year-old son pointed a few cars ahead of us on I-75 as we headed from Ohio to Michigan. His body was tensed. He bounced in his seat in excitement. I hated to tell him he was wrong. But the car in question was a Charger. A few minutes later, he …
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.—Luke 6:45 I can still remember it like yesterday. Not so much the joke I made, but how my mom speared me with ‘the look’. Her eyes flashed. “Jesus said, ‘out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.’” My initial response was typical. A …