Most of us repeated it in our wedding vows…”in sickness and in health, for better or for worse”. I have been privileged to have a front row seat watching that one line come to life right before my eyes. On December 3rd, 2016, my father-in-law, Manley Hanson Hollis, suffered a massive stroke. It was a…
Oh how I love this photo that a Times Daily photog captured. This is Anna standing, with hands raised, cheering on our beloved UNA Lions at the first home game of the season. That is actually my sweetie pie daughter, Hannah, next to her. When Hannah texted me the pic, it made me grin from…
Who’s geeking out with me about the Aug. 21 solar eclipse? Not to mention it totally makes me think of the Bonnie Tyler song, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” 🙂 I got to teach some lessons about this once-in-a-lifetime event this week in my school system and I am completely into it now after researching…
Last night, my funny, sweet, smart, Sunday school class surprised me with a birthday party. Oh it is hard to utter, but I will be 50 on June 24th. Each Sunday, we gather to dig out biblical truths and try to wrap our minds around how we get to live it out the following week….
I am for peace… Not in the sappy “Miss America” world peace kind of way…but for true, abiding, Jesus-giving peace. (No offense to any past, present, or future Miss America intended.) The news headlines yesterday were very disturbing…Shooting in VA at the Republican Congressional baseball practice. The hatred fueling the shooting has me remarkably puzzled….
How do you even begin to describe a woman who bore seven children? Tired – yep – that would probably be a good place to start. First her name: Shirley Jean Seals. She is a fiesty 5’3″ diabetic who loves her cappuccinos, her pastries, her smokes, and her dog – Bobbi – with an “i”….
It is Good Friday…and one of the first things I heard this morning was a man on the Today Show saying, “It is a very humbling experience to be the recipient of such grace from strangers.” Now his statement had nothing to do with Jesus, Good Friday, or Easter. He was talking about something totally unrelated….
Her story took my breath away. The crowd listened intently as she shared how God saved her out of a life of prostitution and drug abuse. She found Jesus in the most unlikely circumstances! The whole place was swept away in the emotion of her story. In my head, I wondered if I could ever have…
How in the world do you unpack the most well known, most loved verses in the whole Bible? John 3:16 is the gospel in it’s simplest form. If the whole of scripture were to some how disappear except for this one beloved verse, there is enough contained in this reference to lead “whosoever” to a…
I’ve often heard it called the dark night of the soul – a season of life where God seems to fall silent and uncaring. We really don’t like to talk about it because it sounds sacrilegious. So instead of dealing with the darkness, we stuff the reality of our walk through the dark night until we…