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We recently moved into a neighborhood that we absolutely adore. People take care of each other. They grab your mail while you are out of town, they call when you forget to put down the garage door, they have impromptu dinners, camp fires, romps on the trampoline, car washes, and slumber parties for the kids. They do things that happen in a Norman Rockwell painting. It’s how I remember my neighbors when I was growing up. We found it. We…

When my daughter, Morgan, was 2-3 years old, I put her to the test. It was the dreaded marshmallow test. You’ve probably heard of such tortuous parenting techniques. With a hidden video camera, we placed Morgan in a room all by herself. She was sitting in a little person’s chair at a little person’s table. On the table sat a beautiful piece of china with 5 marshmallows. I told my little red-headed monster, “Morgan, if you wait and DON’T eat…

Sherry has been purging our basement. For the past several weeks she has been filling up the trash bins and taking schhtufff to the garage in preparation for a big garage sale. Today is the day. Signs are up, and our driveway is lined with stuff we don’t want, but hope other people will pay money for. J It’s funny how this works. Eventually when there’s leftover schhtuff even garage sale scavengers don’t want, we’ll give it away to the…

I met with a savvy businessman this week. We had a power breakfast. I had watermelon, cantaloupe, and black coffee. He threw down two eggs, toast, kielbasa sausage and black coffee. It wasn’t so much about the food as it was the possibilities brought to the table. His energy and focus created an extremely attractive synergy I like. With no lack of vision, this high achiever sees a preferred future where intentional social engineering will lend itself to sustainable gospel…

Officially summer does not arrive until the day after my second-born turns 20… on June 21st. Did you follow that? However… in Atlanta, summer often comes well before it’s designated Northern Hemisphere solstice at 6:51 a.m. on the twenty-first day of the six month. Did you follow that? Bottom line: summer is here. On my day off, I love to soak in these warm southern days with an early cup of coffee while reading, thinking, and praying on the back…

All this week, at around 10 o’clock at night… I’ve found myself saying, “Idiots!” Sometimes the late night news is slow. A north Georgia good ‘ole boy got his homemade wheel barrow car stuck in I-285 traffic when the motor on said wheel barrow contraption couldn’t keep up with the speed demands of the big city. When the lead, breaking news story is such, you know it’s a slow news day. This week was different. On Monday night it was…

What a killer morning and afternoon. Whew. It’s just been one of those weeks. You too? ☺ And… I’m just getting information about the horrific tragedy of a Campbell High School student committing suicide because of bullying. My heart is sad. So many identities are being robbed from what God intended. At lunch I spoke with a couple who had been in chains from identities inherited from a broken past and heritage. The husband kept walls high because he didn’t…

On this very day some 27 years ago, I married my best friend. Cool, huh? After a year long, fast & furious pursuit, Sherry and I were fully together. After that first date and subsequent first card reading, “Looking forward to being great FRIENDS,” (ugh!!!) the knot was irreversibly tied. Awesome. Here’s what’s even cooler. What I’ve learned about this incredible woman is this: Sherry is way more than the sum total of meals cooked each week. Sherry is absolutely…

I watched the iHeart Radio Music Awards last night. The show started with rapper, Pit Bull, announcing, “Everyone that’s here is a who’s who, a what’s what, the anybody’s of all anybody’s.” I was immediately endeared to Mr. Pit Bull, and deeply moved by my obvious insignificance in our scantily clad planet. I wondered if what I was taking in reflected how life really worked. Had I allowed my Thursday night idiot tube viewing to shape squishy perspectives, here’s what…

Sometime in 2015, stupid human tricks and David Letterman will fade into the late night sunset. Letterman is retiring. Stephen Colbert will take over the Late Night desk and microphone. While not squeaky clean in his humor and celebrity status, did you know Colbert is a Christian? He teaches a weekly Sunday School class. He has effectively defended Jesus adamantly against Christian critics. When Stephen Colbert was 10, his father and two brothers were killed in a car crash. Colbert’s…