Restarting and Looking Back | A Shameless Brain Dump

Photo courtesy of Alissa Yarbrough Photography You know, sometimes I just need to restart. Have you ever had that feeling? Like a sandy shoreline all marked up with footprints, collapsed sand castles, and impressions of all sorts. Then a magnificent wave comes and surges over it before receding and leaving the sand smooth and pure …

3 Things We can Learn from a Lamp

Image by Lukas Baumert from Pixabay When you enter a dark room you automatically turn on a light. Did you know that God can turn on the light in your darkness? I am a lamp. I sit on the table in darkness waiting for someone to come and light my wick. The matches lay just …

This Day a Year Ago

This week I’ve been a bit pensive. A year ago today I had my first wreck. Two weeks ago was the first anniversary of my parents divorce. And in just a few weeks more we’ll have been in this house officially a year after being somewhat forcibly moved out of the one that had been …

What it Means to Multiply or Propagate the Gospel

You've probably heard these two words often used as examples for sharing the gospel but do you understand what they mean? A few years ago I was given three terribly cute succulent plants. I had a lot of fun researching how to care for them and choosing what to plant them in so they looked …