1 My heart is not proud, Lord,     my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters     or things too wonderful for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted myself,     I am like a weaned child with its mother;     like a weaned child I am content. 3 Israel, put your hope in the Lord both now […]

Darius Goes West is a documentary by Logan Smalley about Darius Weems, a teenager living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. In 2005, Darius was a 15 year old teenager who had never traveled outside his home town of Athens Georgia.  His older brother, Mario, died at the age of 19 from the same muscular dystrophy disease.  That […]

When I got home Susan told me there was another school shooting today.  This time it happened at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.  At the time that I write this there are 10 people confirmed dead.  I am no longer shocked by these reports, they no longer cause a sense of disbelief.  As opposed to […]

September 21st is about three days away (depending on when you are reading this.)  So ends summer and enters autumn.  Or, more commonly called “Fall.”  (Does anyone actually say: “Winter, spring, summer, autumn?”)  Although I really hate to see summer end I fully embrace fall.  Well, fully embracing might be strong but we are at […]

Susan and I were at the Wyckoff YMCA when the first plane hit.  She was on the treadmill, I was doing a bench work out.  The television stations all broke from the scheduled programming to report the stunning news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.  She called me over to watch the […]

Have you ever made a judgement about someone or something only to find out you were wrong?  What you thought you saw or heard turned out not to be what you thought you saw or heard. You read into somebody’s actions and thought you knew their motivation or what they were thinking. Be honest, we […]

As I am starting to write this our son James is sitting in New York’s LaGuardia Airport waiting for his flight to Texas Christian University as he gets set to resume school.  His flight was supposed to leave at5:55 p.m.  Then 6:45.  Then 7:15.  We dropped him off Thursday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. It is […]

In the summer of 1975, I made a decision to accept Christ into my life and to become a disciple of Jesus.  It was July 31, to be exact.  A night I will never forget and that forever changed my life.  I was 14 years old and knew very little theology.  I was raised in […]

Last month the newest book by Pete Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, was released. It is for leaders, but it speaks to everyone. And in a way, everyone, in some way, is a leader, not necessarily by their role or level of responsibility but by their impact on others. John Maxwell says that leadership can […]

Little Vinny arrived just hours before his due date.  He was born on July 28, 2015, weighing in at 6 lbs. and 8 oz. Coincidently (if you believe in coincidences) Laura and her twin sister Janine, (Aunt Janine), were born on 6/8. Vinny came into this world at 11:32 p.m. and he is just about 48 hours […]