Fight For Joy!

What is it with the pace of life?
We scurry around like a bunch of rats, working furiously…packing as much into a day as possible.  Appointments, meetings, maybe a hurried bite of lunch leading to another afternoon of deadlines.  We arrive home exhausted with still more work to be done…soccer practice for the kids, homework, dinner (probably fast food [...]

Things are not as they seem

My son celebrated his 18th birthday tonight.
In attendance were my wife, my daughter and 30 of the kids from his drug treatment program.  Not exactly the white picket fence idea that you dream of when getting started as a father but let me tell you, it was the perfect celebration as it represented so much [...]

House of Cards

Life feels like a house of cards sometimes.
It’s easy to be lulled into a false sense of security…taking for granted that there will always be enough but for most of us, if we were really honest with ourselves, we would say that we felt as if we were just one mishap from having the whole house cave in [...]

Peer Pressure

Never let it be said that there isn’t peer pressure in a small group!  Our typically sane meeting turned into a head shaving event this past week.  (I’m the one in the middle with the mohawk).
Kory…you have a budding career as a barber if the cop thing ever falls through.  You just never know what [...]

The “Old Man”

“There is one who lurks in the shadows, a cunning adversary that makes his home in the dark recesses.  He hates the light, prefering to linger in the twilight.
Whiny and obsessive, he slithers around on the edge of consciousness, waiting for an opportunity to exert his influence…any attempt to control.
His presence is tangible…I find evidence of him late at [...]

Slaves to our choices

I stayed home from church today with a head cold. 
I’m a miserable patient and it was probably a good break for my wife to go to church without me so I decided to have my own service with the Lord.  I opened my Bible to Deuteronomy and came across a familiar passage (30:19) in which God [...]

Quiet Time

Quiet time…the elusive prey of the Christian walk. 
It’s something we know we should devote ourselves to each day but somehow, life seems to have a way of invading.  I have spent more than my fair share of time making promises to get up earlier and have a devotion but my life as a sleep-deprived parent [...]

Adventurous Hearts

And so it begins…
The month of May has become “adrenaline month” for me over the past few years.  My birthday is on the 1st and I am planning my fourth pilgrimage to the skydiving mecca of Chester, SC and Skydive Carolina.  I have never experienced a rush greater than jumping out of a plane at 12,000 ft [...]