What would you get if Zig Ziglar and Mary Kay mated and produced a business? Answer: The Mega Church. It’s bigger, it’s better – and it’s in-your-face for Jesus. Oh, but if you REALLY love Him you’ll need to fork over some major cash – so they can bring more people to God, of course. I miss church. I loved my previous Texas church home and especially the pastor whose sermons I still remember. He could tell a personal story,…
Growing up, my dad lived by the mantra, “a place for everything and everything in its place.” I, on the other hand, once lost my keys walking across the street to the market in Manhattan (true story, but one for another day). To call him organized would be the equivalent of calling Times Square chaotic on New Years Eve – some things are so obvious they do not need to be called out. Our garage was this eclectic combination of…
In advance of a new home purchase several years ago, I went through the family belongings and put them in stacks: the items that were making the move get packed away, the ones that had outlived their usefulness or aren’t quite the right style or size anymore (ahem, you know what I mean) got put in the stack to be donated; and the “valuable” ones got put on ebay (valuable is definitely a relative term – who knew someone would…