A Spell Check and a Heart Check

Recently I found myself in the dictionary looking for a word I couldn’t spell. I wasn’t on the computer so had to do my own spell check. As I glanced down the page, other words like thud and thwart jumped out at me. Good words, but not ones I use all that often so I...

Ignorance Is Not Always Bliss

I have pictures on one of my shelves at home. The sampling of portraits represents my family and is somewhat tastefully arranged. But this wasn’t always the case. I remember buying the perfect frame for a picture of me as a young child. The frame is oval, brushed...

Generation to Generation

Three years ago I met a woman who would have a dramatic impact on my life and my walk with Christ. We met while serving alongside each other, putting food on plates for hungry people in Oildale, a community in Bakersfield. While I didn’t say much to her that first...

Blowing Smoke

There were times during this past summer’s fire season that my frustration levels reached epic proportions. And it wasn’t because I was having trouble breathing or my eyes were burning, although on a couple of days that was certainly the case. My frustration was on...