Fireside Chats

I was invited to be a guest speaker for a fall brunch held at a church in a neighboring state. After being welcomed…

I love to think about Jael. She was an ordinary woman, more known for whose wife (Heber the Kenite) she was than for…

It took me 5 years of having kitchen duty to discover that it was not a sentence for doing something wrong. In fact,…

This morning I made a visit to the dentist for a filling. It was early. I was cold. I did not want the…

I watched two young boys at the movie theater the other day. They were probably six to eight years old and were thrilled…

Recently Gayle Rouse, an Aglow leader in Canada, was asking the Lord to show her how He sees Aglow in this new season.…

I never used to see myself as a leader. In fact, it made me uncomfortable when others referred to me as one. I…

As I sat in the crowded waiting room of the Doctor’s office, I suddenly became aware of someone calling out. “Ma’am, maaa’aaamm!” As…

After I had been serving as an Area Team President for a while, I felt I needed to go back and analyze our…

One day, I was out planting bluebonnet seeds. It was a blustery autumn day, 43 degrees with wind gusts up to 35 mph…

One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class, Kyle, walking home from school. It…