During Creation, I imagine God smiling while he worked. With great joy, he painted the stripes on the zebra's back. With a chuckle, he fashioned the hyena's giggle. Read more
During Creation, I imagine God smiling while he worked. With great joy, he painted the stripes on the zebra's back. With a chuckle, he fashioned the hyena's giggle. Read more
"How do I look? Do these pants fit right? Is this shirt tight across the back?" There are few men who would ever want to answer questions like these. Along with your mother's cooking, old girlfriends, and commenting on the number of shoes in a closet, no man should ever comment on a woman’s weight. Even when pressed to be honest, we know it’s just a no win situation and you need to back away slowly. I mean swiftly. Read more
The blinking cursor greets me. “How can I find peace?” I type slowly, feeling a little silly. Here I am “Googling,” a nonsensical word that would have inspired laughs and guffaws 10 years ago. Today, it’s a part of our eeryday lexicon, a verb and a noun all in one. I ask the ghost in the machine the question. It takes Google all of .39 seconds to find more than 860 million results. That won’t do me much good. “Narrow your... Read more
Show a little respect You don’t have to be buddies with the boss. You don’t have to be chummy. You don’t even have to “like” him. But we are all called to be respectful. The spirit of disrespect comes out in a thousand little ways, each one cutting its way into office harmony. You say the boss hasn’t earned your respect? We are really without excuse. We are called to something much greater. “Be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and the gentle but also to the unjust.” 1 Peter 2.18. Read more
Too many live life full of regrets. The relationship that they lost. The vocation they never found. The job they were fired from. The place they have never lived. And this is how they see themselves. Formless. Void. Bottomless emptiness. Read more
What I lost in childhood experiences, I gained in lifetime lessons. It is more blessed to give than to receive. We might not have money, but we have a blessing and we need to be generous. Read more
“Beloved.” “Forgiven.” “Perfect.” Those aren't easy words to swallow, given the pig stalls I’ve slopped. Those aren't expressions I would expect to hear from the inside of a whale's belly. Those aren't terms I would describe myself considering the wildernesses I marched into, rebellious head held high until beaten down by the sun of shame. But the story – my story – is His story. And that’s the only one that needs to be to told. Read more
With smeared index cards, we try to relive those days. The ingredients are familiar to any cook, but the portions are customized with an alchemist precision. They are often protected, rarely duplicated. Success is marked by flour on the counter, flour on the kids and flour on the dog. Read more
My mission was to pick up a few apples at the grocery store. How hard could this be? If you don’t know, the male double-helix shopping code is to “get in and get out without any complication.” So I thought this was going to be an easy assignment. But little did I realize I would be faced with such a variety. Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Rome Beauty, McIntosh, Fuji, Gala, Jonagold. There were yellow, green, red, and even... Read more
I grabbed my backpack, took an apple from the bowl on the table, pocketed two of my favorite Hot Wheels and marched out the house. I wasn’t going to take it anymore! I was eight and I was a childhood runaway. I made it all the way to the Dutra’s house where they had a secret hide-out in the back yard. I sat down and rested. It was a quick stop, a layover, a resting point before I made my final... Read more
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