I visited a church this past Sunday and as the worship leader began his welcome after the opening songs, he said let’s just pause a second and let’s thank God for 2025. When he said that it felt like somebody had punched me in the stomach. It literally sucked the […]
I began reading the book “The Five Love Languages for Singles” a few weeks ago. I had not read this book before. Nor had I even read the first edition, “The Five Love Languages”. From my reading, I have deduced that my love languages are Words of Affirmation, Quality time […]
I don’t curse (much). Even after having coached little league football, dealing with groups of mostly boys ages 7-12 for over thirty years, I have let slip very few profane and unsavory terms. However, and with that being said . . . In this situation . . . Under these […]
So, the week of September 7th was a pretty rough week for me. The seventh of September marked the three month anniversary of Kandi’s death. At first, I didn’t consciously realize just how much this was messing with me. I knew that my anxiety was through the roof. I knew […]
I’m going to have to learn to embrace the stillness. The quietness. I can’t fear it. I can’t run from it. I have to learn to walk in it, sit in it. Enjoy it. Not so that I can become a recluse or a loner, but so that I can […]
So, I know its been a while. However, my friend, high school classmate and neighbor, Erica, challenged me to start back writing. She reminded me that this is my catharsis. This is one of my healthy forms of relief from stress, trauma and now GRIEF. It’s my way of clearing […]
“Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him.” Mark 4:36 Even though I’m not the “center of this attention,” or the “star of this show,” I’m still affected. I am in one of “the other boats”. […]
Like Brothers As I said before relationship titles were one thing, the roles people played were something else. Before we moved to Jasper, when Mom and I would go visit on the weekends, I always looked forward to seeing my family. However, there was one cousin in particular that I […]
I never told my mother I loved her while she was alive. Not because I didn’t love her, but because we were never raised that way. As I’ve come to find out, that was common in families back then. Love was never, or hardly ever expressly verbalized. The common retort […]
In the book “Drama Free”, the author, Nedra Glover Tawwab, describes the differences between “roles” and “relationships” in a family. Some people may be labeled as a cousin, sibling, etc. However, they may fill the role of a parent, uncle, aunt or sibling. Oh how true this is for me. […]