“Why do bad things happen to good people?” What is the saying, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard that…. Obviously no one is immune, I don’t know a single person who has not experienced badness or…
Author: The Broken Mandolin
I was….tired. So much going on, and it seemed like every additional morning that I woke up I was barely rolling out of bed and stumbling through the motions of another morning. No excuses…my kids are old enough to not…
I must have just been in a “place” amidst the hustle and bustle of everything coming ‘due’ this time of year. Children were doing a Christmas play for church…so I figured my devotions should go back to the story as…
Lately I’ve been reading about the Apostle Paul. Again, you’re talking to a ‘born and raised’ Christian and I’m pretty sure I was ‘born and raised’ on the whole story of Paul; his persecution of Christians, his conversion from Saul…
I got to drive in some of the worst fog the other day. For the most part all the other drivers were driving cautiously as I was. Except there were those cars. You know, the ones without their lights on….
I was talking with someone at work the other week, and they were struggling with a particular problem; I listened long and finally said “I can definitely see why you are having a hard time with this…this will be something…
Where I came from, the cottonmouth was another name for a poisonous snake. No, this post isn’t about snakes. When was the last time you found your mouth dry, and not in a medical sense. Was it grief? Shock? This…
I love that movie. And now you’re pretty sure I’ve lost it, talking about an old movie that’s not biblical at all. (If you haven’t seen it and you need a sappy Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks love story set in an…
This question, spoken by Jesus in John 5:6 to a long-disabled man, has always been something I somewhat glanced by. As in, read but never thought about it much. Jesus is walking with his disciples by a ‘healing pool’. John,…
I thought I wanted to be a missionary. I was just a little kiddo, but I was pretty sure I was supposed to be a missionary when I grew up. I never lost the dream, but then the dream became…