Category: love
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The Key to Love
My afternoon duty at the grade school where I teach is the car line. I stand near the top of the hill, above our building, and radio down the names of students being picked up. One day this week, just as I started the 100 vehicle cavalcade, a man came up and handed me a…
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The Power of Love
On reaching the unreachable.
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Just Because
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:10 When our oldest son was about 8, we were on a road trip and pulled in to a popular travel stop on the interstate. Fellow Okies, Tom and…
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Ebony and Ivory
Can we all get along?
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My New Clowned Friend
I met a clown once. He was at the mall making balloon animals for the kids. While he contorted a squeaky red one into a dog for my son, I noticed six cryptical letters embroidered on his costume–where a name tag would be. “IYQYQR” I said,” What does that mean?” “Oh, you don’t speak “clown-lish,”…
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The Miracle in the Rain
“I will be glad and rejoice in Your love, for You saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.” Psalm 30:7 It was raining steadily as dozens of cars crept through the student drop-off line at my school. Some students prepared for the weather, wearing rubber boots and carrying umbrellas, but others did…
