Searching For a Waterfall

How often has a “shortcut” worked out for you? Sometimes, it’s better to take the long way around on the road and in life.

Choosing Redemption

I don’t think it is wrong to assume many people dream about receiving a proposal of marriage. In our day and time, it’s culturally normal for the man (and sometimes woman like Monica to Chandler in Friends), to get down on one knee and ask the person they have all the feelings for to spend

A Story Both Old and New

Racism is not a new story and sadly, it isn’t an old one either. It wasn’t so long ago that the Little Rock Nine took literal steps to ending segregation in Arkansas over 60 years ago. It wasn’t so long ago that Jim Crow laws dominated the south. It wasn’t so long ago where one

Seeing Red

You see red. Your blood pulses, your breath quickens and your thoughts fly. You surge with energy… too much energy. You don’t know what to do with it. You don’t know where it’s come from, but something small, something you normally wouldn’t get upset over, has set it off. It’s a raging bull inside of

How to know if someone is “the one”

There are a lot of questions when dating or talking to someone you are interested in.  In the beginning stages, you might think:  Do they like me?  Do they think I’m attractive?  Will they call me again?  Will they run the other way when they see the worst sides of myself?  Do I have something

Finding self-worth in a world of emptiness

I love to please people. I work hard to achieve things – stupid, meaningless things or accomplishments that I think people will love me for . . . Only to wind up feeling empty.   I grew up with a brilliant older brother who is a CPA certified accountant. For some reason, I always believed, no

Escaping the whirlpool of worry

If you are anything like me, you worry about what you cannot control. You worry about things out of your reach. You worry about the unknown future, what tomorrow will bring, and sometimes, it becomes a tidal wave of turbulence that tends to knock your breath away. Have you ever been caught in a riptide?

Surviving a spiritual desert

Sometimes life can be completely and utterly exhausting. I’m talking stress from work, family, or money issues to being mentally spent or physically tired.  Sometimes, life can seem like one day floats into another one… especially when we are all stuck at home all day waiting for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. It can

On the altar of love

Easter may have looked different this year – yes. Virtual services, maybe a small family gathering for lunch depending on the level of lockdown your county or state is under and definitely no wide-scale egg hunt. But maybe… Easter was more intimate. You were able to share a special time with your immediate family and