WITH GOD'S CRAFTSMANSHIP, my wife and I created two children—who are girls. I was awed when I saw the nine-month process to completion...

HE WAS QUICK to help anyone he could. Even though I knew him well, many deeds lay covered by layers of years until it was nearly time for...

AS FAR BACK as I can remember, I was “blessed”—or maybe burdened—with a vivid imagination. I put “blessed” in quotes because it took me no time to learn that imagination can be used for good or for self-interest. Once I discovered the power of it,  I leaned on it constantly, sometimes in ways that ultimately didn’t serve me well. My parents saw where my line of thinking would take me, and though they were young, they did what seemed right at the time: they leaned into discip

WHEN WE SAY TO GOD, "I'm leaving the final outcome of this situation to you," understand that his aim is to give us what our hearts...

Title: When Love Means Giving Up What YOU Want, To Give Others What They NEED From The Master: “Give, and it will be given to you. A good...

WE WERE NEARING THE END of an active morning on the playground. It was chilly by southern standards. Even though the sun was fully out,...

IT'S THE SECOND DAY of the year. The sound of that sentence alone rings so strangely as I mouth it. As the decades pile higher, I marvel...

When Nightmares Come “You can go to bed without fear; you will lie down and sleep soundly. You need not be afraid of sudden disaster or the destruction that comes upon the wicked, for the Lord is your security.” ~  Proverbs 3:24–26 THE DARKNESS in my bedroom was the sort that felt alive , thick as molasses and just as smothering. It pressed against my eyes when I woke, wide and startled, on a night so silent it seemed the world itself was holding its breath. Then came the sou

THE "SILO" this seed grew up in stood on land that had been a cow pasture for decades, maybe for centuries. Fertile soil. It was familiar...

BY THE END of the last sentence you will know the secret to our “happy” marriage. I knew I didn’t want a church wedding, but how would I...

IT'S SO EASY, Rayleigh, to overlook people where I live. It requires no effort. So how is it that I have not forgotten you? While...

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness."...

THROUGHOUT MY CAREER YEARS, I quickly learned to follow what was expected of me in the rule books which are often referred to as Employee...

IF SOMEONE ASKED ME, “Do you know the difference between good and evil?” I might be offended. I would think, “What are you insinuating...

FRIENDS ARE OUR celestial élan vital that time and distance can never erase. . . Sparkling multi-colored pieces of ourselves. Living...

I REMEMBER the gardens my grandparents planted so many years ago. It was a time when Roswell, Georgia, was a very different place. Rows...

WE'VE ALL HEARD IT many times. "A penny for your ______." Being a prolific daydreamer, I admit I have drifted away a time or two, even in...

SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH, Mark Twain wrote: “Myriads of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle…they squabble and scold and...

IT’S OBVIOUS that my hometown’s roadways, originally designed for a maximum of six million in metro population, cannot handle ten million...

CURIOUS, I BEGAN TO PERUSE recent articles about reduced church attendance and related concerns as the pandemic fades. Times have...