This week, a wonderful couple from my hometown (Starke, FL), Mr. and Mrs. Barksdale, are celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary. Whoa! Does that give you God bumps like it does me? Just … wowzers. To think two people can stay together, blessing each other and the Lord Almighty who led them together for that long ...
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Arriving at the tennis facility, I jumped out of the car. Something felt … wrong. I looked down. Gasp!
“OH NO! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?” the snarky voice inside my head screamed.
My feet, which should have been shod with appropriate tennis socks and shoes, were clad in my house flops. I’d forgotten to change my shoes!
I had no idea what to do – there were no stores anywhere nearby to rush over and buy a pair; it was too far to go back home and return by the starting time. My teammates were already on the courts warming up. I felt the blood drain right out of my brain. Deer in headlights. I had really messed up this time.
Glorious Grace
I had a transformation this week. Unexpected. Humbling. Glorious. For the previous two months, I had been unable to hear out of my right ear; noises were completely muffled as if I were under water. Many sounds were lost to me altogether … birdsong, someone calling me from the next room, the telephone ringing. I ...
