I bought a pair of brown, leather shoes from the sale rack at Scheel’s last summer. I noticed, at weddings especially, that brown was the new black so I jumped on the bandwagon. I wore them to weddings and other…
I have a companion. I’ve known her since childhood. When I ran races in high school and college she made me run one more mile. As a student she made me proofread essays one more time and listen to the…
This month at The Water’s Edge, WE are preparing for a pretty good Christmas. Not an attempt at a perfect Christmas filled with stress and disappointment. But a pretty good Christmas. A Christmas that we buy less but give more.…
I was at in line at the grocery store the other day buying almond milk eggnog and some ground beef. It was two days after Thanksgiving. The clerk asked the customer in front of me how she was doing. The…
Some experience Thanksgiving as a long weekend in late November. Others see it as the kickoff to the Christmas shopping season. Others feast in a four-day fest of dozens of kickoffs and hours of watching football. Others enjoy a feast…
We live in an age of entitlement. Entitlement is the belief that you deserve preferences, resources, and special treatment that others do not. Entitlement is like the alphabet, “I” comes before “u”. Here are seven ways to know if you…
This weekend we start Create a Ripple in worship. The best ripples are created by praying. So, I’ll be talking about prayer. One of the best nuggets of advice I have received is: “Go where your best prayers lead you.”…
My oldest son is looking at colleges and majors these days. Next year he’ll be at a school somewhere studying something. Don’t know where or what. One of the majors he is interested in is communication studies. I was looking…
Our #BeKind campaign concludes today. So you can stop being kind. Go back to envy, greed, anger, selfishness, or indifference. Or you can do something else. #DoKind. Doing kindness is a result of being kind. Being kind is who we…
A high school football player recently asked me if it’s possible to be a good football player and kind at the same time. My reply after thinking about the answer for precisely zero seconds: absolutely. The 1989 San Francisco 49ers…