Don’t Drop the Baton
“Stay in your lane and don’t drop the baton.” Those words echoed in my head as I prepared for my first high school track relay. Memory doesn’t serve me on why the fourth member of the relay team was missing, but I do recall the feeling of being a freshman and teaming up with three experienced seniors. And, yes, newbie here dropped the baton. Thanks
On Blazing Trails and Leaving Evidence
Hey y'all, I'm in a full out run of preparation. I'll be leaving for Guatemala this coming Monday, part of a Compassion Int'l mission trip. Amidst all the packing and double checking of the packing, I've turned my kitchen into an assembly line to put good food in the freezer for my beloved farmer to enjoy while I'm away. It's what you do when you were raised by a good Southern
Drive By Preaching
I share an ongoing group text with my husband, our two grown children, and our beloved young in-laws who married those sweet kids of ours. I’m sure y’all are involved in your own group threads. We use ours to communicate important information like who was a rock star at soccer practice, who learned to go potty, and who has a loose tooth. As of this
Take it to Jesus
One evening, during the lovely chaos of this past Christmas season, I found my firstborn grandchild sitting alone with tears running down her precious little face. When my grands cry, my heart melts. I have identified this as one of the laws of motion that Sir Newton overlooked. The poor man could only come up with three? Please. I have tons. Like, a grandchild’s body that
Who are you wearing?
Ah…the interesting universe of Hollywood and the mega rich. There are many things celebrities do, say, and wear that I find off putting, to say the least. But there are other things about their world that strike me as strange, or funny. Or both. For the sake of today’s discussion, I’d like to explore their red carpet moments and the odd habit they-- and the
Be a Super Hero
My BFF celebrated my birthday in her delightfully unorthodox style. She snuck over to my house at midnight with a crockpot of roast and veggies and plugged it in on my back porch. And then she taped silly pictures to my plate glass doors and left cards and gifts. That’s plural. Over the years Red and I have adopted a more is more approach to
Jesus In Our Crib
It was the middle of another sleepless night in a long line of sleepless nights and my daughter-in-law had one leg hoisted over the side of Weston the Wonder Boy baby bed when common sense prevailed. Carey conceded to herself that as much as she wanted to console her boy, the two of them simply weren’t going to fit in the close quarters. It should
The Valuable Waste
Angry, frustrated, hurt, sad, misunderstood, depressed, discouraged, used Choose one word from that list above that describes a negative emotion feel right now or one you've experienced in the last twenty-four hours and fill in the following blank. I feel so __________. (Okay, I'll go first, my most recent blank would read frustrated.) Perhaps you're already over your _____________ feeling. Maybe it's still with you. Either way, I
Water for Thirsting Souls
I just downed a water bottle in one long gulp. It surprised me when the plastic caved in on itself. I didn't realize I was so thirsty until I started guzzling. And that, of course, reminded me of a story. Our son and daughter were gifted athletes. That's not an empty mama brag. The two of them excelled in a number of high school sports. There
Are You Wearing a Mask?
There's a collage of pictures on my phone that makes me laugh every time I see it. Three little hams and one big one are depicted wearing identical paper masks, the kind that anchors around your head with an elasticized band. The little hams would be the three Lake Providence grands. The big one, well, I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't