The bird didn’t fly away like I expected it would as I drove towards it. It floundered, fluttering in the middle of the road. I kept thinking, “It’ll fly,” as I slowed down. But it didn’t. Glancing in my rearview mirror, I saw it, its feathers scattered around it. “I should have stopped,” I thought. …
The Reverend Billy Graham said something in the latter years of his ministry that both humbles and haunts me. In an interview with Christianity Today in 1977, Graham spoke of things he would have done differently. “One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough,” he said. “I wish I had studied …
“As far as I’m concerned, Covid is over,” someone in the barbershop declared. It’s true: we are reemerging, like moles crawling out of their homes in the ground, from a devastating pandemic. In a few weeks, the mask mandate in Kentucky will be lifted, but for many, it’s already a thing of the past. I …
When Lori’s dad died six years ago, some friends gave her a small, stone bench with the inscription, “A father holds a child’s hand for a while…their hearts forever.” We placed it beneath a tree, in the shade, within a few feet of our garden. From time to time, I’ve sat there, if only for a …
I was raised in a family where my Mom worked at home with the kids and Dad worked at the office. Mom and Dad loved their respective roles. I suppose that’s why Mom took it especially hard when Dad let Mother’s Day slip by him one year. It only happened once. But that was enough. …