Ruby Wilson: The Queen of Beale Street

Ruby Wilson: The Queen of Beale Street

Her voice got my attention. I just wasn’t sure where her lovely, soulful voice was coming from. Or whose voice was making me smile. After landing in Memphis, a friend took me to my hotel. I had time to rest before my weekend of events started. But I heard her...
9 Questions

9 Questions

Today’s blog is from Chris’ book, Pause for Moms. Purchase it HERE or on Kindle from Amazon.  * Are you a structured, scheduled person or a whatever-might-happen-next person? * What are the strengths and weaknesses of that personality? * How can you...
God Interrupts

God Interrupts

Today’s blog is from Chris’ book, Pause for Moms. Purchase it HERE or on Kindle from Amazon.  Doesn’t God often glance at our structured schedules all laid out in our iPads and sneak His holy hands into our days? Doesn’t He sometimes hit a caution light or...
Encephalitis, Epilepsy and Hope

Encephalitis, Epilepsy and Hope

– The following is from Chris Maxwell’s book, Changing My Mind.   Now? I know so much about knowing less. I still study to obtain information and to grasp my recovery, my reality. Encephalitis. The cause of my effect of not knowing. It surprises you. Like a...
When I Don’t Feel Like Praying by Loretta Eidson

When I Don’t Feel Like Praying by Loretta Eidson

It’s when I don’t feel like praying . . . that prayer matters most. When I am weak, He is strong. As the lyrics state in Jesus Loves Me, a famous 1860 Christian hymn by Anna Bartlett Warner: Jesus loves me this I know For the Bible tells me so Little ones to him...
Contentment and Dissatisfaction

Contentment and Dissatisfaction

Excerpt taken from Pause for Pastors.You can purchase your copy HERE or on Amazon.   From silence to noise, from waiting to a miracle, from war to peace. Intense and contradictory realities. That is history. That is life. And life as a pastor provides a wonderful...
Weeping and Rejoicing

Weeping and Rejoicing

Travel brings new glances into beauty and fresh perspectives of pain. We live in a world covered with both: we rejoice then weep; we embrace pleasure then work to endure hard times; we smile then shake our heads while watching the news. I cherish the healthy...
Community and Solitude

Community and Solitude

Excerpt taken from Pause for Pastors.You can purchase your copy HERE or on Amazon. READ: One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he...
All People Need People

All People Need People

Excerpt taken from Pause for Pastors.You can purchase your copy HERE or on Amazon.   We are better alone with God when our lives are not only lived alone with God. We need friends who refuse to carry the luggage of their own personal preferences into the...
Lonely People Stay Very Busy

Lonely People Stay Very Busy

Excerpt taken from Pause for Pastors.You can purchase your copy HERE or on Amazon.    Avoidance, lack of honesty, the refusal to be authentic and transparent, keeping one’s distance. These actions describe today’s status for too many lives. Past hurts influence...