Faith
Shirley Temple and Yertle The Turtle
I have read all my life about the attributes of God. We could sit here for hours and pour out a list of countless virtues and features of His character, and each one mentioned would be colored slightly differently and have contrasting significance for each one of us, based on our own personal experiences with […]
Diphylleia Grayi
(When I first saw the name of this flower out of corner of my eye, I thought it said dysfunctional gravy. But, I digress.) The diphylleia grayi is a beautiful, delicate white flower that grows in the colder, moist, wooded mountain regions of Japan and China. It can grow up to about 1 1/2 feet high […]
Obvious Places
One of the lessons, maybe the most important lesson, I’ve learned from being a part of Celebrate Recovery for 16 years is the discipline of listening. I think it’s a habit of our culture to have a pithy phrase at the tip of our tongue for every situation and every difficult occasion. And it’s basically […]
A Flat Tire, A Leaf, and A Bird
A FLAT TIRE, A LEAF AND A BIRD: So, Friday morning, I left my house for work. As I walked to my car, I noticed the front left tire was fairly low. I thought, “GREAT. JUST GREAT. I need to just get to the bottom of the hill, about 3 miles away to get it […]