Just Ask a Six Year Old
Yesterday was “Lake Day” at a local summer camp for kids. I volunteered to help by taking kids, two by two, out on the lake for canoe trips…all day. It was my 3rd year, and in some ways you could say I was a 3rd grader, with over 400 young teachers around me. I got to play all day. I asked a few of them questions, and their answers were golden. When I asked these kids, “What do you think God looks like?” I got priceless answers. “Well, I know He wears sandals. Probably
Best Week Ever
I remember a Sunday I’d have to call one of the best weeks I’ve ever had at church. Not because the music was great or the prayers were eloquent. I actually missed the preaching part, which was titled, “Take Time to Play,” because I spent the entire service playing with my granddaughter London. We colored. We laughed. We ran. We read. We explored classrooms. We had church, just not in the usual manner of church. Ours involved Elmo and trying to slide the purple crayo
The Spurs and M&Ms
“We see more people trying to catch the moment for later than actually in the moment now.” ~ Singer Jack White commenting on people watching his concerts through devices. Here’s the way it seems to happen. A moment…then it’s a memory. Moment… memory. You could say “M&M’s” everywhere. Deleting pictures on my phone the other day I realized I had some shots of what seems like puffs of smoke against a night sky. What were they? Fireworks! As in the ones I missed because I
Stop, Pause and Play
“If your life had a remote control with only 5 buttons would you be inclined to press play, stop, fast forward, rewind, or pause?” I asked a few friends on Facebook this questions and got a variety of answers. Bottom line, don’t miss this moment. It’s soon gonna be a memory. While speaking with a friend on the phone one morning and reminiscing about the past, I said, “Those were the days,” to which she replied, “These are the days too, you know.” The revealing truth of tha
