If your situation seems too dark, too desperate, too impossible, I want to float a message of hope to you. There is a light. I’ve been there with you. I’ve looked down at the edge and looked down. It’s a terribly steep fall with no bottom. And standing on one side of that chasm, sometimes I can almost reach out and touch the other. The two sides are that close.  In other situations, the divide is expansive. But I believe... Read more

The biblical hall of faith is filled with men of passion and zeal. Read the names – Abraham, Samson,  David and all the others and you’ll recall the tales of inspiration. We retell them in Bible studies, sermons and object lessons to our children.   But nearly every one of these heroes has a dark side, a story you won’t find on the flannel board in Sunday school. Most of these role models had some deed that they desperately wanted... Read more

Over the last few years some sharp barbs have been thrown my way. Some were deserved, and I pull those out with the understanding they were fair consequence for my own behavior. Do the crime, do the time. Other accusations  were patently unfair and untrue, but were flung with the same venom and velocity as the others. I sit with all of their pointed tips, gathered in my lap. I look at  both the fair and unfair, and sort them... Read more

As I look at the world, I am struck by this fact. We simply don’t honor each other, we don’t honor institution and we certainly don’t honor God.And I’m right there, so I’m trying to understand just what honor means.Bernie is part of this amazing writer’s group that I blessed to part of. And she sent me a note about “honor,” a topic I wrote on yesterday. And I love her insight, found over at Healing of the Heart. She reminded me... Read more

Some words never go out of style. Words like “love” and “bacon.” But one word that is disappearing from our lexicon is “honor.” In fact, I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard in a normal conversation or read about in a publication. Whatever happened to honor? When I think of honor, my mind heads over to the middle ages, where knights lived by a “code of honor.”   These men fought for truth to the point of personal loss. Honesty,... Read more

A casual walk down the aisle of your favorite discount store reveals the great lengths manufacturers will go to save us from ourselves. Warning labels are plastered on nearly every product, warning us of choking, addiction, overdose, and every imaginable harm. If something goes wrong, don’t say you weren’t warned! Even the simplest product is plastered with orange “Adviso/Warnings.” I remember my son’s Halloween costume a few years ago. He was going through a Batman phase and the costume was... Read more