Celebrating the life of Opal Myers. Opal lived in the back-mountains of eastern TN. She wasn’t famous or rich or, for that matter, even known outside her community, but yet she made a difference in my life and the lives of hundreds of others.
Today as I was making breakfast with my son Lincoln I was reminded how important it is to spend one on one time with our kids. It’s so easy to only see them as little people roaming around. Our kids, no matter what age, have personalities, interests, and dreams just like we do, and it’s …
Don’t be fooled by me. Don’t be fooled by the face I wear. I wear a mask. I wear a thousand masks – masks that I am afraid to take off; and none of them are me. Pretending is an art that is second nature to me; but don’t be fooled, for my sake, don’t …
It was late on a Saturday night several weeks ago. Dan Thompson, the pastor of the Almighty God Tabernacle, put the final touches on his sermon and then prayed for some time for all the people who desperately needed to hear the message the Lord had given him. Finishing, he picked up the church phone …
Early one morning while on vacation at the beach, I walked barefoot to the water’s edge to watch the waves gently lap upon the sand. Slowly, I inched forward until the water was ankle deep and when the waves rolled in, the ocean was up to my knees. My eyes moved from the water around me …
The world is far from being a perfect and safe place—and, life is not always fair. We all experience wounds that leave us scarred. For me, the wounds I regret the most are the ones caused by my inability to face and deal with my pain. To cope, I simply avoided painful situations and relationships. …