I’ve made many innocent blunders in my life. The one I’m going to tell you about ranks up there with the best, or maybe I should say, the worst of them. Starla and I had gone to the hospital to visit a family whose newborn was having a heart procedure. […]
Selflessness!
When my youngest daughter Hunter was turning nine years old she surprised Starla and me. She told us for her birthday, instead of giving her gifts, she wanted to use the money that we would have spent and use it to make lunches for the homeless. So that’s exactly what […]
Decision and Desire!
As I was driving recently, I slowed down to wait for an 18-wheeler truck to pull out in front of me. I waited as it slowly made its way in the same direction I was going. As I pulled up behind the big truck and trailer, I noticed a sign […]
Reproduce good things!
Hurt, people hurt, people. Controlled people, control people. Angry people, anger people. But healed people, heal people and loved people, love people. I think you get the point. You reproduce what you are. You reproduce what you have experienced in your own life. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 says, “Praise be to […]
No Weapon!
When I was playing football in Junior High, I remember tackling a guy from behind. I wrapped my arms around his legs and the heel of his two cleats went right into my diaphragm. It knocked the breath out of me. That was many years ago. It didn’t kill me, […]
Always keep a positive attitude!
Sometimes life hurts. Sometimes people fail. Sometimes plans fall apart. Sometimes things just don’t turn out the way you initially planned. So, what do you do? Many people get mad, quit, throw in the towel and refuse to keep moving forward. That is a guaranteed way to lose. Others, choose […]
Effective Communication!
Recently I was ticked off about something that had happened and I was still fuming over it when I spoke to my daughter about something completely unrelated and the tone I spoke in was harsh. My tone completely disqualified what I said to my daughter. All she heard was “tone.” […]
One Act of Kindness!
I can remember while growing up with my two brothers, that there were times that one of us “committed the crime, but all of us, did the time.” Sometimes my parents would punish all of us, because even though we may not have been guilty, at that time, they knew […]
Abundant Life can be Yours!
It was the month of June in the summer of 1978. I was sixteen years old, standing on a ladder, painting my grandparent’s house in East Texas. In between fighting the wasps that were coming from the attic of that old house and fighting the Texas summer heat, I was […]
Bless or Curse!
I recently walked into the sanctuary of my church just after the service had begun. I saw a young lady near the back whom I had a conversation with just a few weeks earlier. She had told me that she liked sitting in the back of the church. I know […]