One of our recent adventures to the mountains of North Georgia I don't have many real adventures in my life. I don't have many things that I do that are very adventurous or exciting. Yeah, every now and then we go on a hike, we go on a long run, or we go on a …
God doesn’t give you more than you can handle…
Many well-meaning and good intentioned people throughout the history of history have recited those words in an effort to encourage others. The difficulty with those encouraging words is they are a potentially a misquote of scripture. Without boring you with the details of a hermeneutical study of New Testament Greek, the scripture verse that comes …
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If Patience is a Virtue, does that make Impatience a Vice?
When describing Tatooine to R2-D2 and C-3PO, Luke said, 'If there's a bright center to the galaxy, you're on the planet that it's farthest from.' That feels like the most accurate description of me, when having a conversation about patience. I don't find myself to be patient in most endeavors of my life. I often …
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This time of uncertainty.
What do we do when our normal is challenged? Do we rise above the circumstances of that which is challenging us or do we falter, crumble, and begin to fall apart? Not that these are the only two responses, but they seem to be opposite ones that I most struggle against when things change in …
Milestones
Let's be honest, nobody really cares what you had for breakfast or dinner last night. Nobody cares how your workout was or that you went to the gym 75 times this week. And nobody especially cares that you had an awesome vacation that none of the rest of us were able go on. But what …
Detours
I have been thinking quite a bit about detours. What I mean by detours is those times when you thought you knew how life was going to go or you were pretty sure you knew what direction you were taking, only to have the script flipped on you. So you had to detour. Generally, I …
Easter Sunday
What does Easter mean to you? Is one of the few days of the year that you go to church? Is it a time that family gets together and you think of how thankful you are to have all of the members of your family? Is it simply chocolate, those nasty Peeps, and Easter bunnies? …
Here we go again…
I have decided to start writing again. Lots of things have changed in my life since the last time I shared my story on a blog. Some of the changes are good, some are bad, and some are very hard for me to cope with. The decision to start writing again is motivated by a …
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