Saturday yard work guilt: Spraying Round-Up weed killer on those tough, determined blades of grass that grow right through the tiniest crack in the street or driveway. Don’t you sometimes admire their tenacity? Did you ever think maybe, if they can live there, they deserve to? Any old weed can grow in a flower bed.
Sometimes I feel like God’s paper clip. Not because I hold things together, but for another reason. Perhaps it’s because of that need we all have to be needed. A need for significance. Let me explain. Every profession has it’s tools. Carpenters use hammer, saw, level, measuring tape, nails, etc. Some tools are essential; used every
Where I Am Today A walk in a park Full of beautiful trees Next to a flowing river With a bridge near by And a busy four-lane highway. Listening for birds, but hearing traffic noise. Where I Want to Be In the middle of a storm The waves crashing The wind screaming Asleep on a
The baseball game was like none I have seen before. The home team loaned some players to the visiting team just so everyone could play. When a player hit the ball, everyone on both teams cheered. When the player in the field caught it, everyone cheered again. It was almost impossible to tell who was
Our cat suffered from a blood clot last night. This morning, Tammy and I took him to the vet for the final time. One last visit, to end the suffering. Once the sad deed was done, I went on to work. The remainder of the work day was pretty normal. The trip home was not. The
I took the day off yesterday and Sam and I went fishing. We didn’t catch any fish, but we had fun anyway. Sometimes it’s not what you do or how well you do it, but who you do it with that counts. The memory of that day is definitely a keeper.
Years ago, my wife and I were traveling down a dark lonely road. We had just been to a foster parent training session and now we were taking the two lane county highway towards home. We lived in the country and it was late, so we had the road all to ourselves, or so we
If they had celebrated April Fool’s day back when Jesus was around, do you think he would have participated? I’m thinking there is no doubt. He may have even started the whole thing. When you get to Heaven, just ask the two guys who took a walk on the road to Emmaus. See Luke 24:13-32
It’s warm and sunny outside. Spring has sprung in Atlanta, just like God promised it would. “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.” – Genesis 8:22 I just knew it was coming. Remember this post? The Trade Off