We have a system that has worked in this house for over 11 years. I fall in love with every puppy I see, in a trunk in the Walmart parking lot or lost alongside the road, it doesn’t matter. I want to take it home. I hold it lovingly and smell it’s yucky puppy breath […]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Special Encouragement
Last Sunday I got to be a part of something very special. A friend of mine’s daughter, Tiffany, turned 13 on July 3rd. In honor of this milestone, “coming of age”, kinda birthday, she invited certain women who are influential in Tiffany’s young life right now, to come over for a time of fellowship and […]
Christmas in July
Well, maybe not exactly. But waking up to a rainy 64 degrees in the middle of a deep south heat wave sure felt like Christmas! In addition was the fact that we all got to spend hours outside doing what we love most. For one little boy I know, that meant playing in the rain, […]
Nothing
That’s what we did today. Nothing. Yet look how Emery and I fell out around 5:00 this afternoon. You would have thought we’d been out workin’ the fields or something. In reality, the kids went to an art camp this morning for a few hours while I ran errands. We got home and all put […]
Into the Light
The wilderness can sometimes be a dark place. Especially when you’re right smack dab in the middle. It’s hard to tell which direction to go. You look up and a canopy of tree branches obstructs your view of the sky above. You feel lost even though you pretty much know where you are. Much of […]