The beach in the off season is not very crowded, or at least it wasn’t today which gave me opportunity to walk, and think, and appreciate, and pray. At one point I found myself calf deep in the surf as wave after wave splashed to shore. There is peace in the lapping of the waves […]
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The Intimacy in Connection
*Yesterday I had a conversation with a young man who is in his senior year of high school. He is the star player on the basketball team and has been recruited by multiple colleges. But as I was speaking to him I realized he was filled with a deep sadness that he is very good […]
The Bully Can’t Win
When I was about ten years old my sister and I were playing at a playground in our small town when some bigger boys came over to us and started calling us names. My sister, a whole year older than me, was not going to let them bully me so she began defending us. Without […]
The Danger in the Stronghold
The idea of a stronghold is certainly a good one if you look at it from the perspective of protection. Historically a stronghold was described as fortress or a castle, in modern day we have more advanced structures that are used for physical protection. An ideological stronghold is a place where a particular cause or […]