From the heart of a servant....

DWYL Pt 2: Finding the Variable

I told y’all I’d make it a series…LOL “When times are good, be happy;     but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one     as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover     anything about their future.” (Ecc 7:14) You know how it goes…You’re at the New Year’s Eve service or just talking to people concerning the new year coming and this is pretty much what you hear: “Man,…

Don’t Waste Your Life

Time…. It’s free but it’s priceless. We don’t own it but we have it. We can’t keep it but we can spend it. Once we’ve lost it, we can’t get it back. We delegate how it’s used. We have a limited supply yet we don’t know what that limit is. We plan what we want to do with it while in the same moment, it’s diminishing. Okay. Enough of the deep metaphorical talk. LOL. The point is that wasted time…

The Volume of Silence

“Can I talk to you?” It’s a simple and specific request, yet sometimes we, who are asked the question, misunderstand it. There are times when someone will come to you, telling you that they need someone to talk to and thought you would be the one. But there are times when we do them a disservice by doing one thing… …speaking. There are times when someone approaches you with an issue and they need…

I’m reading Acts 8:9-13: But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.” And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic.…

Five Things We Teach Our Kids When We Don’t Know They’re Watching

Alan OnePurpose Jean:

To all my parenting friends, current and future: This is a blessing and a lesson for us all.

Originally posted on Your Mom Has A Blog:

The other day it finally rained in our parched little town.  We’re in the middle of a drought, and the torrential rainfall was such a welcome and strange sight.  It rained so much in such a short time that the streets began flooding, which,…

Alan OnePurpose Jean:

Please read this. It blessed me.

Originally posted on The Responsible Puppet:

I say it again, prayer is ridiculous.

What is prayer? Prayer – especially the supplication kind, requires the belief that (1) You, a finite, short-lived, self-focused, fallible, mortal being with little knowledge, (2) by uttering (or even just thinking!) some request out into the expanse of the…