After my post on Progressing in Prayer, PD reader, Missy in Texarkana emailed me a practical practice that is an awesome suggestion.  With her permission I am passing along this excerpt: “One thing I wanted to pass on that I have found a good thing in my prayer life is that I have studied the... Read More

I don’t ever remember any prayers at home as a small child. I don’t recall bed time prayers or meal graces. Perhaps, they happened and I just don’t remember. What I do remember is that sometime in early high school, around my freshman year, I became very curious spiritually. One thing I wondered about was... Read More

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”  That seems like an easy enough directive, but how do we actually love one another? Dr. Gary Chapman, a Christian counselor, speaker and author, has a wonderful book called the The Heart of the Five Love Languages. In his book, Dr. Chapman proposes that we express love in basically five... Read More

The other morning before work I was out hanging a load of laundry on my clothes line. (Yes, I really do have a clothes line.)  The line is in a small area next to our garage surrounded by a privacy fence.  The ground is covered with cement paving stones.  It’s a rather stark area punctuated... Read More

To my readers, I hope you will excuse a moment of personal privilege on my 44th birthday, June 20th. I wrote the following note on my Facebook page at the end of an absolutely wonderful birthday. I share this with you because sometimes we just need to applaud God publicly. At least, in some small... Read More