I never like having to leave at 5:30am. You might be a morning person, but to me it’s a punishment! Then to have a day like today! Ugh! You won’t believe this. Our 5am wake up call came at 5:30. I told the man, ‘I had a 5am call’ (of course in a polite voice […]

As the mother of a baseball player, I’ve endured MANY hard bleachers while watching and WAITING, on the off chance that I’d be there when Austin was called into the game. When you’re a pitcher, even on days when you don’t start, you STILL have to be READY to come in and perform at a […]

I heard a funny story from a friend of mine who sits on the board of a couple of BIG Las Vegas casinos. He says, that wealthy gamblers on a “winning streak” will traditionally order a bottle of 1982 Petrus, Pomerol wine to CELEBRATE. (They say, more bottles of ‘82 Petrus are sold in Vegas […]

Many times, I’ll catch myself letting idle words ESCAPE my lips just for the sake of conversation. Even as I was speaking at our church last weekend, I realized I had said something onstage that I would NEVER want to shape my future, if it actually came to pass. What we BELIEVE and what we […]

Do we believe that when a mountain appears on the horizon, our forward progress is OVER? Do we believe that when the “chips are down” there’s no way to get things BACK in our favor? Jesus guaranteed us that disappointments, obstacles, troubles, and distractions would come…BUT!!! Canceled! Do you know what they say when someone […]