I didn't watch every event in Rio. Not by a long shot. So You, Lord, had to put this one on my Radar Screen. And I am SO GLAD You did!!! :) :) :) Two women in the 1,500 kilometer race tripped over each other in a qualifying heat. Abbey D'Agostino from Team USA and Nikki Hamblin...
I have been at a lot of Crossroads in my life, Lord. You know better than anyone else. STOP. Look Both Ways. Choose Well. Proceed with Caution. Take the Road Less Traveled. Enjoy the People Watching. Walk By Faith. Like many others in my "generation," I actually stood on that corner in Winslow, Arizona. I...
Mine is on my back. Left side, just above my waist. A red welt about two inches across. Swollen. Itching like crazy. Twenty-four hours after that tiny bee delivered his oversized PUNCH. I felt him before I saw him. Something alive crawling on my back, underneath my t-shirt. Making my skin crawl. I put my...
Above all... LIVE!!! "In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God and The Word was God... In Him was Life, and that Life was the Light of all mankind." Live deliciously! Live expectantly! Live courageously! Live fearlessly! Live passionately! Live purposefully! Live intentionally! Live exceptionally! Live abundantly! Live uncommonly! Live transparently!...
There were two major limbs. Each weighed hundreds of pounds. They were no match for our pole saw. We could never have been able to lift the limbs. But by cutting them off, we lifted the tree. It seemed counter-intuitive. Cutting these limbs off so deliberately. There was nothing wrong with those limbs. They both...
We were talking to a doctor friend of ours. By Your Grace, Lord, he has saved more than one life in our family. He looks way younger than his chronological years. He smiles from the inside out. That's what he said when we noted how terrific he looks. "I love my job!" He doesn't just...
I was fine at dawn. No problem on our eight-mile bike ride. My breakfast of champions -- Grape Nuts -- went down without a hitch. That's when it hit me. Slowly at first. Slow enough that I managed to drop my honey off at his appointment. I even shopped for groceries. But something just didn't feel...
What do 450 miles, one lightning bolt and a credit card approval for $6,619.00 have in common? They are all highlights --or lowlights -- in our trip south today. The GOOD News is... We're halfway to Florida. Falling asleep at 6:30 PM. Dinner already settled in our tummies. Trying to stay up late enough so we...
Today, it was just inside the entrance. I hadn't planned it that way. But You had, Lord... since before You created the earth. What an amazing thought! That something we might think is so "random" was planned out long ago by the One whose plans will not be thwarted. "For I know the plans I...
My work began in earnest today. You have called me here, Lord, to "fight on my knees" on behalf of all who will come this week. The 180 children. The countless adults who will be teaching and feeding and loving those children. We all went to the Epicenter today -- the school where the week-long camp will...
