Category: Living
Voices From the River Bank
ShareI woke up early yesterday morning with the strangest question running through my […]
Sunday Mornings
With total understanding of what the gospel of Christ is really about she replied, “Church isn’t for perfect people, church is for everybody.”
The War to End All Wars
I will do my part to defend the freedom I treasure because I know it is not enough to simply remember; I must act, I must do, I must serve so that the terrible price that you paid is not lost to neglect and apathy.
Vanishing Point
“…I close my eyes at journey’s end, and sit beneath the shade.
The heat of travel flows from my fingertips and toes to the soil beneath me,
The earth returns a cool stillness in trade.
I open my eyes to the golden touch of sundown.
The last rays illuminating the treasure I have traversed.
There is no hurry in me now and so I remember…”
Brother Tingey’s Christmas Memory
I had forgotten Brother Tingey, his kindness, his generosity, his strength of spirit; Brother Tingey had forgotten himself, his wife, their life together, and his family; but there was someone who had never forgotten him. Through the simplicity of a song and the imperfect voices of a group of teenage girls Brother Tingey was reminded that he was still a Child of God.
To Labor and To Wait
“I can tell you beyond any doubt that God hears our prayers and He answers them. He doesn’t take away our troubles, but He gives us joy in the midst of them. He doesn’t make us comfortable, but He gives us the chance to comfort others and find respite from our own woes through service. He always answers our prayers, but not always in the moment that we pray.”
Resisting the Arms that Hold Us
Share The summer I turned twenty-one I was invited to be a camper […]