What do we tell our kids?

Raising kids is hard. There are days that I’ve wondered why we decided to have kids. When I look at the world around me and all the tragedy and hatred and pure evil, I wonder why we waited so long, why I was born when I was, why we raised our kids in the US and not in some remote fishing village off the Arctic Sea, or why we aren’t living in some country where the worst we have to worry about is the bears or the lions. Some days, I’d rather face the threat of the pack of a lions than to face the demons that walk this earth…

Mission Work – Bringing Jesus to the World

Whether you believe you are going to a country where Christianity Is strictly prohibited or whether you are going to a country where Christians are known, but maybe the numbers aren’t where they need to be to carry God’s word, there is a whole spectrum of views and opinions in the middle. You don’t have to go far to do mission work, either.

When you wonder what God is up to…

I don’t even know where to turn my attention. It seems everywhere I look, something is broken. Wars in countries, floods, cancer. Israel is shooting missiles everywhere – everyone is shooting missiles at it. America is arrogant in her power. We are being washed away with floods. People are making ridiculous decisions and then the Lord is using others to bring HIS MESSAGE to the world.

How Prayer and Listening Shape Our Decisions

It’s about a guy who is stuck on his roof in a floor and prays to God for help. A couple of different ways come by to help him – he declines them all, saying basically, “No, I’m good. God is going to help.” End of the story, he dies. He gets to Heaven and asks God, “Why didn’t you save me?”

Yearbooks: Capturing the Memories

I had to take Silas to lessons and offered to fill up the gas cans while I was out. I don’t know why I did. Moment of no brain, I guess. I can’t ever open those stupid gas cans. Went to fill them up, got so freaking MAD at how cold it was and I couldn’t feel my fingers that I put the gas cans back up, drove to Taco Bell and warmed up, got back out in the parking lot, unscrewed 3 of the 4 cans out of sheer anger and determination to not fail and then got even more blistered that I knew that meant I had to fill them up again.

Parenting Laziness

By the way, if you haven’t done Scare on the Square with a child with strep throat, I strongly recommend you try it.  (I’m not sure what we were thinking…)

Mississippi Pot Roast

Y’all.  I love food.  Food loves me.  We have a relationship where I have made a secret vow to never ever ever become a vegan because anything green in major quantities might actually kill me.  There.  I said it.  Death to vegetables.  Bring me meat.

Can you hear Me?

But y’all, God is faithful.  He is persistent.  He is good.  And He keeps His promises to pursue me because He loves me.