Category: Life

I didn’t find out what Matt had done until some time after he had done it. But the story has stuck with me. I’m sharing it with you,

The last eighteen months have felt like a series of holding patterns. We've learned to wait. We're still waiting.

Grandma and Grandpa did not drink, smoke, swear or allow a deck of playing cards in the house. Grandma wore dresses below the knee, never pants. She did not

A month after the May rains and flash floods, a large, flowering bush in our front yard started buzzing. Bees, I thought, when I heard it. But I

“Love covers a multitude of sins.” I Peter 4:8 I had been riding back home to the Mississippi Coast next to my father in the station wagon all

Last week, I had a conversation with my daughter, and it went something like this: “Have you seen all those hackberry trees growing along that fence line over

This week you may be anxious about looming electric bills. You may be repairing damaged water pipes. You may be glad to have electricity and thankful for working

As we say goodbye to 2020, many of us are eager to leave the year behind in its own dumpster fire. But there are a few things I'd

Wouldn’t it be nice if history left us a guide on how to thrive during a quarantine? Better yet, what if entire communities spent centuries building their lives

Coffee is a sacrament, and you, dear baristas, are ministers of grace. To view the world as sacramental is to view it as a vehicle for epiphany --