For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. From...
What are life's most difficult questions? Read on to discover one of mine. Esther Cepeda, a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, wrote an article recently about Gen Xers coming into their own.< Here is an excerpt: “Because they live in the shadow of both...
Ninnekah is a Choctaw word. It means night or darkness. On a dark night in Ninnekah, under the Choctaw sky, Tonya Rodgers called her boyfriend from a payphone. It was the last phone call she ever made. That evening in the spring of 1990, she was raped and murdered by...
With any luck, every Thursday at dusk-thirty you'll walk to the curb and drag your city-issued trash bin up the driveway for the 1000th time since reaching adulthood. With any luck, you'll see your favorite neighbor doing the same. With any luck, your 4-year-old boy...
In her eight-year career, Erica Warren has worked in four industries, at seven jobs, and been laid off three times, most recently in June 2009. In spite of all of that, this resilient Atlanta Generation Xer is not afraid. A Stimulus Package to Combat Hopelessness...
For several weeks I’ve been camped out in lessons from the Book of Numbers. I’ve read the entire book over and over again, especially the first three chapters, which is, well, a bunch of numbers, and I’ve learned so much! Lessons From the Book of Numbers 1. When...
It's been 14 years since the Oklahoma City Bombing. Here are some pictures I took the other day. Oh, it seemed like a holy place, Protected by amazing grace And we would sing right out loud The things we could not say... --From Sad Cafe by the Eagles