Arranging Your Life For Growth

Whether we realize it or not, many of us spend our lives as orchestra conductors. We try our hardest to make all these random pieces of life come together to make beautiful, balanced music. Yet,...

Change Is A Community Effort

Over the course of the past few weeks, you have been reflecting on the person you feel God wants you to become in 2011. Unfortunately, sometimes you are so close to a situation that you get tunnel...

Wardrobe Changes

Being a father of two young daughters, my house is the definition of pinkalicious. Everywhere I turn I am confronted with something girlie. My life is consumed with tea parties, fairies and...

Pausing To Look Backwards

Lets be honest. Very few of us can open up our old yearbooks and be proud of the way we looked back in the day. The reality is we attempt to keep this piece of memorabilia under lock and key. No...

An Unexpected Turn

In a neurotic sort of way, I desire everything to go according to plan. Anytime there is a deviation even in the slightest bit, I tend to freak out. My worst fear is to hear a knock at the front...

A Closet Full Of Memories

Living five minutes from the beach in southeastern North Carolina, its not uncommon to see some people wearing shorts into late fall.  Yet, it has grown increasingly colder over the past few days...

Stopping To Give Thanks

The rumble in my tummy is just my stomachs way of reminding me how excited it is for Thanksgiving. It doesnt have to worry because my brain already got the memo. Visions of sweet potatoes and...

Nudging The Scales

Some writing assignments prove to be a bit more daunting than others. Explaining the concept of leverage and the role it should play in the life of a disciple is one such challenging task. To...

A Growing Soul

Another lazy Sunday afternoon in the fall finds me camped out on the couch with a belly full of appetizers watching a football game. With the kids quietly playing up in their room and my honey do...

Ripple Effect

Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy once said, Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. In your ten months interacting with My One Word, I hope youve come to terms...