Jessie and Prissy
I got a note this week from a friend of mine that I don’t get to talk to all that often. Part of what she wrote was, “Hey there! You are someone that has always inspired me with your relationship with God. I can admit that I yearn for that. As my life gets more […]
The Stone
Back in the summer of 1975, I was on a college mission trip to East Brunswick, New Jersey where we held vacation bible schools for the local children. There were 8 college students on our team and we spent the entire summer living in the preacher’s home, where the garage doubled as the church auditorium. […]
Epic Failures
Okay, so I think I’ve gotten past the “embarrassed to the point of total mortification” stage to talk about it now. A few weeks ago, on a normal, uneventful Sunday morning, I was standing in the choir room at 8:20, getting ready to go on stage to worship. All of us choir members normally gather […]
Fear VS Knowledge
My mom was in the hospital in Searcy for an entire month. All us siblings joined together to make sure she was comfortable and that she knew at least one of us would always be there with her. She has congestive heart failure, which is being handled with medications. She was having a really tough […]
Waiting
July 4th was tough. I’m not going to downplay it. It was tough. I was working, like I do every year, a fireworks tent in West Little Rock, working about 22 hours a day, coming home just long enough to take a shower, take the dogs out and feed them. I didn’t have time to […]
Patty Duke and Eve of Destruction
I know it will be hard to believe, but when I was in the 5th grade, I was the skinniest kid at Shady Oaks Elementary School in Hurst, Texas. And possibly the least athletic kid in the universe, in the history of mankind. I never understood how I could be outside all the time, running […]