• Faith Reflections,  My Life

    Basketball and God

    I doubt many folks think of God when they think of basketball. I’m sure a multitude of prayers have been lifted up from courts and stands across the nation with the desperate hope of a buzzer-beating shot. But on the daily, not so much. I certainly didn’t relate the two until a couple of months ago. I was in the middle of a personal retreat, wrestling with my soul-crushing inability to allow God’s love to define my worth rather than work and ministry. It was an agonizing couple of days struggling to traverse the deep canyon from head knowledge to heart knowledge. My head knows God’s…

  • My Life

    Been "Gon" A Lot

    If I needed motivation to quit some things, I found some today via a letter that my 7-year-old nephew wrote as part of a class assignment in first grade. Dear ant moe I miss you so much becuse you have been gon a lot You’r been on misson trips and going to the zoo.  I want you to stay and play with me and morgan outside! and I want you to stay for aver and …. aver! Ugghhh. Do you hear that sound? That is the sound of heartwrench, a distant cousin to heartburn but much more painful. One of…