Is it worth it?

I have two souvenir t-shirts now. One is almost eighteen years old, and the other is just nine weeks old. One is white and the other is red, but both were cut from my body in the back of an ambulance. I was working on doing laundry this morning. I am returning to work this week and I am going through my things, putting together my work clothes. Tossed in the corner of the laundry room was the hospital...

Faith not easy to come by...

Have you ever had a past conversation come to mind? I have had a lot of things on my mind the past few days. If I am going to be honest, I have lost a little sleep over some of it. I keep going back and forth in my head; on one hand I can clearly see where God has protected and provided for me and my family, but in the other hand I see everything that is stacking up and I get scared. I keep trying...

Corrected or Connected?

It all started with a conversation that I had with my mom on Tuesday evening. She had called just to checkup on me, not knowing that I had gotten sick and had almost completely lost my ability to speak. So she was a little alarmed when she heard the weak and barely audible sound of my voice. I heard the 'mom tone' in her voice almost instantly as she had me explain to her all that had happened since...

Persistence

We have all experienced that moment when we are grabbed by the hand and pulled along for the ride. Whether it's a friend or a little kid, we have all been led by the enthusiasm of another. It's not a bad thing, sometimes we even have a little fun ourselves. But have you ever stopped to think that you can do the same thing with God? Now if we are being honest, most of the time we think that it is God...

Questions

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," There truly is something timeless about this opening statement from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. At some level, I think that we can all relate to feeling like this at some point in our life. I keep thinking about this phrase as I try to pull my thoughts together today. In many ways, it made a lot of sense to start this blog right now....