I’m preparing to substitute teach a Sunday school class this week. The lesson is from 1 Kings 18 and 19. You may or may not know this story, and I’ll admit it isn’t one that I learned as a child. It is a great biblical story with a profound lesson, nonetheless. Elijah was a prophet […]
Every year or so, a few of my friends from long ago reunite. We all grew up in the same small Southern town and have known each other since infancy. One of the last times we got together we reminisced about Friday night football games, Sunday morning church, family dinners, and pre-teen campouts, and we […]
Remember the game Marco Polo? We played it at the pool almost every day of the long, hot summers in Southeast Alabama. It’s basically a call-and-response game—on land called Blind Man’s Bluff. The point is there’s an outcast, the “it,” who with eyes closed, calls out “Marco.” The others play by responding “Polo.” “It” must […]
I never saw the movie Wizard of Oz until I was a young adult. Not once. Even though the movie was released in theatres long before I was born, it would be shown on TV once a year on Wonderful World of Disney which happened on Sunday nights. But during my growing up years, we […]
Down here in the South, family is really important. That’s why family reunions are often major annual events. A few summers ago, I went to my family reunion in L.A. (Lower Alabama) held at the “mother church” where there was food (to the tenth power), hugs, kisses, and, for me, reacquaintance with long lost cousins. […]
Small Potatoes and Tuesdays @ the Piggly Wiggly Several years ago I published a book by this title. It was a memoir that followed a thread of everyday happenings that impacted my life and the profound lessons learned. Today I start a new blog series with the same theme. Small Potatoes and Tuesdays @ the […]
Hello readers. Thanks for following me and my journey into discovering who you really are. This is the last post in this series, but I plan to continue with the blog on another topic. Stay tuned. God bless you all! If you’re still confused about who you are, it may be that you don’t know […]
Let’s face it, during your lifetime… You will get older… You will get hurt…. You will be overlooked… You could lose your influence…. You could lose your security…. You could lose your passion… Then what? When your sense of worth is dependent on your appearance and youth, your intellect, your strength, your significant other, you […]
There are four purposes for posting selfies on social media—to show the world: 1) how we look, 2) who we’re with, 3) where we’ve been, or 4) what we’ve accomplished. This post begins the fourth item on that list: What We’ve Accomplished. Failure-to-success and rags-to-riches stories abound. Basketball great Michael Jordan tells audiences that he […]
A great story in the New Testament is such a good example of Jesus’ power to forgive even the most heinous sins. When a woman, who was caught in the act of adultery, was brought to Jesus this is what He did: Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with his finger. When they […]