This week, I decided I need to simplify my prayer life. I am saying goodbye to guilt and giving myself a break. I know the battle is won on my knees, but if I am snoring as I pick up my sword that is not very effective. I am not a morning person. Long interludes…
I’ve spent most of the week trying to wrap my head around how one man could have so much hate in his heart. My heart is heavy. Honestly, I haven’t watched much news this week. I just can’t. I can’t watch one more report about a senseless shooting where precious lives were wiped out with…
Over the last year, we spent many quiet mornings sitting next to a giant. He wasn’t 10 feet tall in stature, but he was big in heart. My Cuban Abuelo was married for 70 years to the same woman, worked hard, and loved well. He was the patriarch and centerpiece of our clan, and his…
We live in scary times. North Korea is going to blow up the world any day now. Hurricane season turned into an atomic bomb in September, and saluting the flag at a football game is suddenly a political power keg waiting to explode on the sidelines. And, to top it off, Jennifer Dukes Lee’s Doomsday…
On Monday, I put Irma behind me and went back to work. I’d spent a week away from my fellow warriors, so I did a few check ins as I wandered about the building to see how everyone was holding up. I stood in the reception area talking to a beautiful single mom who asked…
I sat on the couch in his office and prayed for God to help me to respond kindly. Across from me sat my boss who was a Christian man, and I worked at a Christian school. Over the course of several weeks, he had questioned my capabilities, misrepresented my motives, stripped me of responsibilities I…