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This past week my family took a vacation where we had time to simply rest. Rest is good for the soul and an important part of our spiritual

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

The season of Lent is not one with which I grew up. It was one of those things that was relegated to the Catholic corner with the statues

In my earliest memory I am frightened by a crow. I am two years old and I am in my backyard on a red tricycle. I hear a

I notice faults in folks, faults that I have forgotten I possessed myself. I am quick to judge, unwilling to forgive, particularly when the sin is a sin

If Mama got to cooking and found herself in want of a cup a flour or a cup of sugar, she would place a measuring cup in my

On my first day back to the office after four-and-a-half months of working from home due to the pandemic, I wore my most comfortable work-appropriate shoes. They weren’t

“Damn dam,” Mom would say every time someone mentioned the Whitney Dam. Mom was my grandmother. Back in the 1950s, the dam had flooded her homeland, an area