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Working with flowers always reminds me of my mom. She relished her garden and yard, and conversations with her sisters or friends usually resulted in a seed or clipping exchange. Mom never said thank you for a clipping, reminding the giver that doing so would ensure the death of the plant. They would laugh and […]

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” Mother Teresa Some days the struggle is real. We bounce from task to task or city to city or perhaps just room to room, keeping up, producing, achieving, looking for place. Recently, in the Memphis airport I came across a […]

Psalms 22 – 24 present a trinity of experiences. We often focus on Psalm 23, but it falls between two important occurrences. Psalm 22 gives us the experience of Mount Calvary. Here we read Jesus’ cry from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” In verses 14 – 15 we find […]

How amazing that as we faithfully pursue our daily responsibilities God leads us into our destinies. We look for the fairy tale, for the happily ever after, but life is in the doing, the meeting of daily challenges, the grub and the grime of everyday obedience to God’s way. The eternal ramifications of this faithfulness […]

If you are going to spill coffee on your Bible, Leviticus is a good place for it to land. Leviticus is an important book in the Bible, but it is not where I spend most of my Bible study time. So, this morning I got up early to finish off Leviticus with my morning cup […]

If we want to leave a legacy, we should live our faith. (Hebrews 11:4) Faith doesn’t always reveal the destination, but it always starts a journey. (Hebrews 11:8) When the patriarchs of the faith left their country, it was no longer on their mind. Instead, they looked ahead to a new life, a new home, […]

Isaiah 64:4 – For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. I can’t imagine the glory of Heaven. I can’t imagine how God can improve upon the majesty and […]

John 6:31 – Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Numbers 11:4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which […]

Sorrow and death have permeated our lives for the last several weeks. The death of a loved co-worker, the sudden illness and passing of a family member, the homegoing of a friend’s father, a violent crime that ended the life of a friend’s child…all life changing, all devastating, all carrying us to the precipice of […]