Auctioned Off The first year I taught third grade students in Texas I was auctioned off. That’s only one of the differences I discovered between teaching in Texas and teaching in Florida. The curriculum was
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After Christ’s Resurrection On Easter Sunday, we celebrate Christ’s resurrection. He is risen, indeed! Although this glorious event is our main focus, and what our faith and hope are built on, other events took place
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Have Your Timbers Ever Been Shivered? Have life events ever shivered your timbers and left you feeling as if you’ve been broken into many small pieces and left adrift? Life has a way of doing
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Give What We Receive During a recent sermon, my preacher mentioned the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea as an illustration of how people sometimes go to church and receive, but never give what
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Erasing the Blackboard Ah, the black felt eraser. In the days before overhead projectors, computers, and smart boards, how many of you raised your hand and asked your teacher if you could erase the blackboard?
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Superior Have you ever held onto something you once felt was superior to all others, yet over time, it needed to be replaced because it was either broken, outdated, or obsolete? Perhaps it was an
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Got the Blues? This time of year can be beastly for so many, for so many reasons. Especially if we’ve got the blues. Have you noticed that? Perhaps you’ve even experienced it for yourself. It
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Priming the Pump Although my South Georgia grandparents had indoor plumbing, they also had an outdoor hand pump on their back porch. As someone who grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D. C., that
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Are Our Lamps Trimmed and Burning? The inspiration for this post is the Spiritual, “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning”. Slaves sang this song as a reminder that they must stay alert amid distraction, danger,
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Control What We Can Control During a prolonged drought-causing oppressive heat wave that hit our area of Texas last summer, I learned several things. The most important, I believe, is that we can only control
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