Week 45 Memory Verse: Does what you wear matter?
The last time I prepared to head out on a speaking road trip, a beautiful thing happened in my bedroom. (Hmmm… maybe I should rephrase that. Nah. Stick with me, you’ll see where I’m going soon enough.) Two things have to happen before I’m ready to give a presentation: I have to get quiet enough
A Free Lunch Fills a Belly and a Soul
When we talk about feeding the hungry, we usually talk about feeding people who literally don’t have enough to eat. There are kids in my area who grab a bag of chips from the convenience store because it’s cheaper than buying a sandwich and an apple. It’s also cheaper than paying for the school lunch
Kindness Podcast Episode 4: RAK Foundation
Do you struggle with high blood pressure, eating disorders, depression or anxiety? Do you ever feel like true happiness is reserved for other people? There is room for more joy in your life and it comes from the chemicals released when you do an act of kindness. Kindness has the power to change a life.
Week 44 Memory Verse: So he got up
I don’t know if I’m allowed to do what I’m about to do. I don’t know if it’s okay to take just a few words from the Bible and highlight them, but that’s what’s about to happen. I just finished a bible study about the prodigal son. That’s the story about the son who asks
Kindness helps us to do what we couldn’t do on our own
If I were left to my own devices, there is no way you would be reading this kindness column right now. I know nothing about printing a newspaper or scheduling delivery routes. I know even less about how the internet works and how to get the newspaper on a home computer. The only way I’m
Kindness Podcast Episode 3: Same Kind of Different As Me
What’s the single biggest mistake of your life? What’s the one decision or perhaps series of decisions that led you somewhere you never intended to be? Do you have one? Or perhaps it’s not something you’ve done, but what’s been done to you. Our stories often become the secrets we hide in a dark place
Week 43 Memory Verse: Not Your Battle
What if the way we see people behaving in the Bible long ago is a message about how we are supposed to behave today? Not all of it is good, of course, so you can’t just open to a page and say, “There! See? It’s in the Bible. I’m gonna do that!” You might just
