His Words (for when you are waiting)
Every Sunday around here is for His words instead of mine. Are you in a season of waiting? Well, He has something to say about that. The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. ~ Lamentations 3:25 ESV Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! ~ Psalm 27:14 ESV For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. ~ Habakkuk 2:3 ESV But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. ~ Micah 7:7 ESV But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they...
Day and Night…Night and Day
Maybe you noticed that I was silent yesterday. Well, it was because I was sleeping. During the day. Because I was awake the night before. All night. ALL. NIGHT. Perhaps this will be too much information, but hey, we're all friends here, and we're about being real, right? Well, there is nothing more real than a urinary tract infection, folks. NOTHING IN ALL THE WORLD. So, because of ye old UTI, I had my days and nights mixed up for a bit, and I'm here to tell you that there are good reasons for living life during the day and sleeping at night. For starters, it's dark at night. Because you can't see as well, you might think you're walking through an open doorway but smack into a wall,...
Make New Friends…But KEEP THE OLD
Ladies and Gentlemen, it has been a delightful two days. Delightful, as in FULL OF DELIGHT. I went over to Plano to stay with my parents, and work for a couple of days on my aunt's house in a continuing effort to settle her estate. So, while I was over that way, I made dinner plans each night with a different old friend, both upon whom I had not laid eyes in years (and in one case many years). Over dinner, both times, as I gazed at each beautiful face and listened to the catch-up stories we all have to tell, there was one word that kept repeating itself in my mind... Why? Why did we wait so long? One friend lives very far away, and our lives have led us on divergent journeys since...
Public Service Announcement
In case you read my blog in a reader, through email, or simply by coming to this site all by yourself, with no provocation by social media, I'm jumping through my screen today to go hang out with people in real life for a couple of days. I highly recommend you do plenty of the same! See you on Thursday morning!
Wear Sunscreen
Do you remember that song by Baz Luhrman, addressing the Class of 1999? It was a compilation of great pieces of advice to a high school graduating class, and I loved it. It started out like this: Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99 If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…I will dispense this advice now. I had teenagers at the time it was released, and I had enough of the gifts of hindsight and life experience to know that every piece of that advice was solid. Now, another sixteen (SIXTEEN?!) years...