As another page is torn from the 2024 calendar symbolizing the movement towards the close of another year, I should no longer be surprised by how quickly time seems to pass. Moving into a new month, decorating for the holidays, and making entries into a crisp, new 2025 day planner, these activities trigger a time …
Category: Defining Moments
Put Down the Phone
It’s a sunny Saturday, the third weekend in October. The air is crisp with fall, there’s no humidity, and yet, it’s warm and comfortable. An ideal weather day, in my opinion. Where would I find a contented you? Out on the golf course, in the backyard, or at a college football game? For this sports-minded, …
Godly Adventure
More than once lately, I’ve heard the statement, “You don’t like change, do you?” from people in the home improvement industry. Although the question is somewhat off-putting, I am usually willing to engage in some self-assessment, so I’ve been asking myself a version of this question: Am I amenable to change? And I’m finding it …
Cows Don’t Give Milk
Two years ago, while browsing social media, the phrase Cows Don’t Give Milk seized my attention, and I wish I knew who to credit for the original posting; however, the note in my phone listed the author as unknown. Fast forward to the present-day rumination on this story and I discover there is an actual …
New Kentucky Home
Weep no more, my lady! It’s now been one month since the second moving truck (the first one broke down and they had to reload a new one—don’t even get me started on the phrase If it can go wrong, it will) pulled into the long white driveway of my rental house in Campbellsville. After …
Tripped Breaker
Out of genuine interest, have you ever inquired, “So, how did the event go?” and receive a reply along the lines of “Weellll (southern version)…let me tell you what happened”? In case you have not, it’s usually an indicator that things did not unfold as planned! Ethan’s answer, to my probing about the outcome of …
But God
But God…those are the two words penned this morning on the handout containing the lyrics to the music for the Easter service. Digging a pen out of the bottom of my purse, trying to get the ink to flow before I forgot the words that Eugene shared from Ephesians 2:4, I hastily scribbled But God…The …
16th Second
After 30 years in education, I would admit that I’ve heard my fair share of commencement speeches—some memorable, others not. There is often an underlying theme of something along the lines of “go out and conquer the world.” I even ask, that during a life calling assignment, my students listen to an excerpt from a …
Asking Over Assuming
Recently, I was the beneficiary of several intriguing insights while engaging in a Walk and Talk with Makayla, one of which relates to how we both delight when an author uses a phrase that captures a concept we’ve been mulling over, especially when we have been struggling to articulate it in a specific way. Even …
Tell Him
Did you happen to read the title of this post and start humming a song from the 1960s? Coming across the phrase Tell Him while reading Francis Chan’s Crazy Love, I began to vocalize the lyrics to The Exciters’ song I wasn’t even consciously aware that I knew: I know something about love/You’ve gotta want …
Flourishing @ Life 