Posts Tagged ‘encouragement’
Girls in SUVs Talking Out Loud to Jesus: How to Perfect Your Prayer Life
Girls in SUVs Talking Out Loud to Jesus: How to Perfect Your Prayer Life I know. It has been a while. I opened my laptop and stared at the blank screen for what seemed an eternity. A writer can get caught up in a personal head game of writer’s block and easily confuse it with…
Read More#TexasStronger in 2018 – Y’all This is Home
2017 is one for the books. Hurricanes, world records, and mass shootings – we dry out, rebuild, celebrate, grieve and pray. Neck deep in the flood waters of hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in August and dumped a record 51.88 inches of rain in Cedar Bayou, Texas, we found ourselves rallying our bass boats and…
Read MoreMondays, Babies, Zits, and Stolen Cars
Today is a Monday if there ever was a Monday. Up to my neck in babies, zits and stolen cars. God, help me believe. Help me believe, help my unbelief. I have to go to the bank to redeposit a deposit that wasn’t properly deposited the first time I deposited it. The foster-love has an…
Read MoreGod is most careful with you…
God is most careful with you… I can’t stand it. Years wasted… bemoaning… I wasn’t enough. I wasn’t adored. I could never measure up to what was expected. You can’t talk me out of it… I won’t succumb to the lie, “You must work harder to please Him.” I want what He wants. I want…
Read MoreHow to Reach Your Target Heart Rate without Getting Out of Bed
They say you cannot remember pain. I say… they have never torn their calf muscle and plantar fasciitis. I still have nightmares about it. I liken it to a Charlie-horse that gave way. Or to a gunshot wound. I remember the song playing: Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leopard. I remember the choreography,…
Read MoreHow to Reach Your Target Heart Rate without Getting Out of Bed
They say you cannot remember pain. I say… they have never torn their calf muscle and plantar fasciitis. I still have nightmares about it. I liken it to a Charlie-horse that gave way. Or to a gunshot wound. I remember the song playing: Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leopard. I remember the choreography,…
Read MoreMy Child Doesn’t Believe in God…
When our son Luke was 6 he asked if Santa was real. Luke was our 3rd child. His older brother and sister were already privy to the truth. So I knew he knew. I did the little bit about the real Saint Nick and why we do what we do. Yada. Yada. Yada. And Luke,…
Read MoreThe up-side of being down…
It is raining here again. This is a big deal. Although, we are still in dire need of more, it has been raining a lot. Things around here are looking lush and green. I heard an older gentleman saying he woke to frogs chirping, something he hadn’t heard since the mid 90’s. Come to think…
Read MoreThe #1 Gift I Refuse to Give My Children for Christmas
The #1 Gift I Refuse to Give My Children for Christmas It’s starting. The commercials are legend. Somewhere, someone is concocting the next Christmas lampoon of how one boy and his loyal dog must SAVE CHRISTMAS. Some evil mastermind wants to steal the joy. Maybe he wants to kill all the reindeer. Could he be…
Read MoreThe Semi-Exact Blood of Jesus
Semi-exact… I wish I had said this before Donald Trump said it at the debate Monday night. I am in love with the term. And I have already stated my thoughts on The Donald vs. Hilary. I stand by this: This election isn’t the last straw. It’s not crushing the camel’s back. It might be…
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