After walking through the checkout lane at Walmart this week I wonder if women’s magazines do as much harm to women as porn? There were two teenage girls in front of me flipping through this month’s edition of Cosmopolitan.  I watched them read through the magazine.  No emotion. Absorbing. No expression. Accepting.  No revulsion.  Just […]

4 years ago tonight she slipped from my arms into His.  Within a single moment the arms that had embraced me for 48 years were now embracing the only One she was made to be with. Still so many things I miss about her. Her light… For the last 20 years of our lives my […]

Conservatively speaking, I have gotten boat gas at Johnson’s Ranch at least 300 times over the last 50 years.  Whether being cradled in my mother’s arms while my grandfather paid…or being the one who pays as my sons ask if they can get a snickers bar. Johnson’s Ranch is on Caddo Lake and the “oldest […]

    A friend of mine recently admitted to a moral lapse.  There was a lot of shrapnel from his confession.  He told me that as part of his healing he wrote down as many of his past transgressions as he could recall and then burned the list.     Im on a retreat for […]

So a friend asked me, “if Adam and Eve ‘chose’ to sin, then why is it that we cant ‘choose’ God?” Can we choose sin but not choose God? Interesting question.  Lots to unpack. 1. Did Adam and Even choose to sin? Yes. Prior to Genesis 3 Adam and Eve were in perfect union and […]

  What a strange sign.             I’ve seen the category a thousand times in every bookstore but this weekend it struck me as odd.  So here is the basic idea: 1. I realize I’m messed up (good) 2. I then grasp that I need help (excellent) 3. I reach out […]