Tag: Hope
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Is Hope a Sustainable Strategy?
The pint-sized kindergartener kept heaving the full-size basketball upward towards the goal. The rim was set to seven feet high, but the little girl is only half that tall. Yet there she was, trying over and over to reach the basket. My wife walked by at some point, unaware just how long the tenacious child…
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Anxiety + Resiliency = “Anxiliency”
“You help someone by telling them your story,” says my blogger friend Mitch Teemley. Okay, that’s not a direct quote, but it sums up his purpose in story telling–I think. Since I linked back to his site, maybe he’ll chime in.🤞 My story goes like this: at times I’ve been like a leafless tree, watching…
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Blurb for a Fellow Blogger (3)
If you’re on the look out for a devotional collection that plants a scriptural seed and provides the water and fertilizer too, this is it! Here’s a second excellent book, by my blogger friend Bridget Thomas, that contains thirty short chapters, each dedicated to a different facet of the believer’s identity in Christ. A key…
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Leaves By the Door
The custodians at the elementary school where I teach are currently battling leaves. The fallen foliage is on the outside, but it keeps coming in the building—thanks to the ever present Oklahoma wind. At the end of the day, the hallway near pre-kindergarten parent pick up looks like this. Our little leaf litter problem even…
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Being Part of the Team
I once was on a little league baseball team. Apparently, I was the only one who didn’t know it. There’s even an old picture to prove it. I’m standing on the front row– uniform tucked in, with team logo half showing. The bright blue cleats I’m wearing rarely ran around the bases, but they were…
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Hunger Stone
Confession: one of my favorite pass times is checking what’s trending on Wikipedia. Last night I found a captivating article about hunger stones. These are large rocks set into river banks during times of extreme drought. Meant to serve as cautionary signs for those in the future, when such markers become visible it means hard…
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