Category: Personal

  • The challenge to love in deed

    Hall and Moore were plugging a new book, What Difference Do It Make? (WDDIM). The new book covers what their lives have been like since the success of SKODAM. Their stories made me laugh. More than anything else, though, I marveled over how two very different men could become such close friends. I decided I…

  • Naive and judgmental, cont’d

    But the example that these Christians are setting for me is to give and not ask for an explanation, to prefer being taken advantage of, to give til it hurts, to trust God to do what pleases Him in their lives. Christ’s command is to feed the hungry. Not fix them before I feed them.

  • Uncomfortable

    As the sun began its trek across the sky, I made my way to the downtown area that is commonly referred to as West End. Located across the river and the railroad tracks, down the hill (Tuscaloosa is literally a city on a hill), and just past the county jail, West End is not winning…

  • Count the Cost

    Katie is a young woman who is mother to 14 children in Uganda. This is an excerpt of her most recent blog update: A few days ago an American woman who had spent about three days of her life in a third world country looked at me and said, “I would SO love to do…

  • Post-Weekend Run-Down

    I am really dragging this morning.  I was busier than usual this weekend; it was all good, but I’m feeling a little tired today.  I can’t imagine that much of what follows will be interesting to anyone besides the grandparents and relatives.  I’m about to relay personal info about our weekend, which included about twelve…