If you were to pose the question to someone in their final days on this earth, Which outcome do you feel has been more relevant in your life, gathering fame or leaving a legacy--what do you imagine some of the responses might be? If you were granted the opportunity to ask a person who has …
Category: Life Calling/Vocation
Perfect Timing
If I took the time to share all of my friend Tara’s attributes, I would need more space than I’ve allowed for this blog; however, one of her many gifts that has amazed me time and time again, is her gift of Perfect Timing. Of all the friends the Lord has chosen to bless me …
Spiritual Arteriogram
How’s your heart? Not a question you typically hear someone ask a healthy person. It’s an inquiry reserved for a patient on the mend, someone recovering from by-pass surgery, or perhaps an angioplasty. However, while reading Gods at War this week, Kyle Idleman was suggesting that perhaps I needed to consider the health of my …
Who Am I?
Who Am I? A deep, existential question that is not always easily answered, especially for Emerging Adults in a season of exploring their identity outside of the homes in which they were raised. It’s not even a simple question for someone in her fifties; although, there are some settings, and depending on who is posing …
Bucket List
Have you ever created a Bucket List, if not in a written form, at least entertained a thought that someday I’d like to have accomplished (fill in the blank)? I’ll even settle for a checkmark beside the item: Watched the 2007 Rob Reiner movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman entitled The Bucket List. See, …
37 Words
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” On today’s 50th anniversary, June 23, of Public Law 92-318, more commonly known as Title IX, I reflect …
Show Up
“Just Show Up…with intentionality, recognizing that the words you use, the actions you display are going to have an impact on someone whether you intend that to happen or not.” These wise words were shared by Pharmacy Professor Kim Jones during a 2022 chapel service and resonated deeply with me as she shared of a …
Reporting for Duty
Parking the Jeep between a set of faded white lines in the Penick lot outside of Fred DeLay Gymnasium and voicing the words “Reporting for Duty” may not bear the same weight as it would coming from a military member or first responder; however, that is exactly what I’m being challenged to do by pastor …
Bean-Eatin’ Appointment
“You and me, Partner. We meet center of town, high noon.” As a fan of movies and television shows set in the wild west, I’ve heard some variation of this phrase thousands of times, but I must admit that the latest GEICO commercial caught me by surprise with its application to our modern culture that …
Odometer Reading
Climbing into the Jeep on my way to West Jackson one recent Sunday morning, my eyes glanced across the dashboard as I placed the car in gear and took notice of the Odometer Reading, probably because it was a nice, even, rounded-off number: 14, 200. I like nice, even numbers; so much so, I almost …
Flourishing @ Life 