Growing up in the mountains, we didn’t have any streetlights. There weren’t many neighbors nearby either, so when we would play outside, sometimes it was pitch black. My uncle bought us this set one time that I’ll never forget. It was this cheap little walky-talky and flashlight combo. The littleContinue Reading
Many of you know I didn’t grow up around here. I grew up in the coalfields of Virginia, spending most of my early years running through the woods and climbing the hills. My father raised a small arbor of grapes, and I remember hiding under those leaves, stealing the sweetContinue Reading
In today’s readings, we hear this exciting line: Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what the will of God is, what is good and pleasing and perfect. While praying over these readings, I kept being drawnContinue Reading
A friend and I were talking about the movie “Evan Almighty.” In this movie, God has asked Evan to build an ark. Everyone thinks it’s silly and that he is crazy. His wife is at her wit’s end and is struggling with the whole idea. Sitting eating fish at aContinue Reading
I am not big into crowds. Luckily my favorite grocery store is open twenty-four hours so I can do my shopping during the hours most people are curled up on the couch watching T.V. During one such visit I noticed a man and his son also doing some late-night shopping.Continue Reading
“Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year for you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are, each one, to take a lamb for themselves, according to the fathers’ households, a lamb for each household. Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and hisContinue Reading
“Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him. And He said to her, “What do you desire?” She *said to Him, “Say that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine shall sit, one at YourContinue Reading