This little boy had me at the grin that awaited me when I walked in the front door. At three months old, the newborn baby I’d read about, heard about, and seen in albums on Facebook was cuter than I even knew. It wasn’t long before I had Lofton in my arms; and even quicker...
Olivia is the darling four-week old little sister to the most adorable two-and-a-half year old Jackson, the two of them together making up the bulk of what keeps their parents, Bethany and Heath busy. But I’m sure it’s the best kind of busy. And how gracious that God would bring such a sweet and peaceful...
It’s often what I think the mode of busy-ness had to offer us. It says, “let’s pre-program our lives, let’s live in routine, let’s auto-pilot through the smallest and often most-important moments in our days….” Our interactions with strangers. A walk in your neighborhood. The setting sun. A meal that turns from lingering to foraging...
This has been one of my more anticipated sessions of the year, thus far. No big hoopla. No special occasion. No reason other than the celebration of two beautiful people in a wonderful relationship that is coming upon a new season – a season apart. It seemed to me, there was no more-perfect time than...
As a kid, I didn’t grow up in church – and it wasn’t until much later in my teen years that I had any concept of what Vacation Bible School was. Spending those years in a small, Southern Baptist church, it was inevitable I’d learn the ropes of VBS one day – if only to...
