The Most Promising Investments

The Most Promising Investments

  I’m seeking to invest in what never ends. Love is patient. Love is kind. Love rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things. Love believes all things. Love hopes all things. Love endures all things. Love never ends. The love investment. Love is one of a...
If Patience and Slowing Feels Painful

If Patience and Slowing Feels Painful

This carousel at the St. Louis zoo always makes me dizzy.  Not unlike how I feel in life.  Days rushing by like everything around this ride. Colors and lights blurring past me like the years that have passed since the carousel’s first use in the 1904...
Love Without Hesitation

Love Without Hesitation

  Each day of Vacation Bible School this summer the children tossed spare change and dollar bills into the wicker basket.  Little hearts and hands moved to do something in response to what they were learning and now know.  That 200 women are forced into slavery a day...
When You Fear What Life May Bring

When You Fear What Life May Bring

I’ve been enjoying some early before-the-kids-wake-up bike rides this summer.  My usual route takes me over a bridge which hovers over the enormous churning Missouri River. For me, riding over the Missouri River bridge by myself early in the morning is about as...
Extravagant Grace For When You Feel Messy

Extravagant Grace For When You Feel Messy

ex·trav·a·gant 1.spending much more than is necessary or wise; wasteful: an extravagant shopper. 2.excessively high: extravagant expenses; extravagant prices. 3.exceeding the bounds of reason, as actions, demands, opinions, or passions....