Opinion

I’m writing this on Tuesday afternoon about 4:37 p.m. and I just got through with a run. It’s been a long day with Jesus and I thought an early run might shake the cobwebs out of my head. It didn’t.

What’s the hardest thing you have ever done? Can you remember the hard days, the hard seasons? I can think of a lot of them.

Yesterday was a hard day.

Considering the events in our country the last couple of weeks or so, perhaps it’s time for an awakening. We all know God works in strange and unusual ways.

Every so often, my phone buzzes — and it’s not a pal, not a loved one, not Ted from accounting asking if he can expense a banana. It’s a stranger.

I give great advice. Really, I do.

I don't know if it is because I'm getting older and just don't care or what. I'd like to say that it is because I'm getting older and wiser but that doesn't really hold water either.

There’s this new thing. It’s the biggest thing. Every country loves it and claims it as their own. The future will look at this moment and divide history into two sections: Before and After.

Everywhere we look, we see evidence of autumn — from ads for pumpkin spice-flavored treats to the smell of newly-sharpened pencils to colorful leaves drifting to their resting places on the ground. This kaleidoscope of sensory pleasures has been scientifically proven to improve our moods.