“Jorjanne Flake, we need to see you in the front office please.” Trembling and wondering what she did wrong, Jorjanne made her way to the office. She opened the door and was handed a sheet of paper. “We want you to read this to the entire school tomorrow,” they said. She wondered what it was. Ahh, yes. You see, last week Jorjanne was asked…
November is the month where we verbalize our thankfulness. Millions of people are using social media to publicly list one thing they are thankful for each day this month. Why is it that we only focus on thankfulness one month a year? Every day that we live and breathe should be a day of thanksgiving. Yesterday, I went to a women’s event and heard Lysa…
Weeks like this one leave me longing to find a gentle, quiet stream to sit beside and be still. While it has been a good week, it has been an insanely busy one. There is something about streams that evoke peacefulness and rest to those in its path. As I quieted my soul one morning this week, the Lord led me to John 7:38. “Whoever…
Last night several of our youth from church went down to Atlanta to work with an inner city church’s Trunk or Treat. We had a great time playing games, painting faces, painting pumpkins, serving food and much more. My friend, Suzie, had these great masks and it was such a hoot watching people’s reactions as we would walk up and stand beside them, waiting for them…
No one likes to fail. I can’t remember anyone ever saying, “I think I’ll try something new so that I can fail.” No. We don’t think that way. Instead, if something seems too challenging or if there is a risk of failure, too often we shy away from it, and find excuses not to push ourselves. We refuse to risk success. I put off getting my…
Last week a friend was going through old newspaper clippings for our scrapbook at work, when she came across an article entitied, “What’s in your Bucket?” Dr. Mike Davis, from First Baptist Cleveland writes about how we are earthen vessels (2 Corinthians 4:7). He goes on to talk about times when we are carrying a cup of coffee and are jostled and what’s inside of…