Coat of Many Fears

I’m taking a course through the Memphis School of Servant Leadership called Fear, Courage and Christian Discipleship. The textbook is Following Jesus in A Culture of Fear by Scott Bader-Saye. During the first chapter alone, my head got tired from so many...

Stamp Prayers

My dad introduced me to stamp collecting when I was about eight. He had a couple of navy-blue, hard-cover albums with crunchy-sounding, yellowed cellophane paper separating the pages. Colorful little rectangles were affixed to pages with headings like Mauritania and...

Sick Day

I have a scratchy throat, teary eyes, drippy nose, and an inordinate need to sleep. I’m an impatient patient. Being sick feels like a violation of the Puritan work ethic. How can I take the time to recuperate when there is so much to be done? But today I...

Lenten Calendar for Prayer

Here is a sample of the template I’ve used for the past few years to pray during Lent. Each day I pray for a person or pray a short passage or word from Scripture. As the prayers accumulate day-by-day I can look back and continue to pray for the people from the...

Lenten Discipline

I have compiled my list of Do’s and Don’ts  for the 40 days of Lent. 1. Don’t eat desserts or snacks. 2. Do pray for someone or something everyday using the Lenten calendar template or some other drawing format. 3. Don’t play computer Scrabble....