What’s the smallest change that’s made the biggest difference in your life?
That’s an easy one for me: We canceled cable.
One phone call. Big difference.
Becky and I didn’t do it because of some profound philosophical shift we underwent. Nope, what happened was we sat down to watch X-Files one Sunday night – as we were in the habit… 
Archive for August 2009
The Smallest Change That’s Made The Biggest Difference
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Mrs. Hayes knew I hadn’t finished my homework. She called on me in spite of that. Because of that.
I stood in front of the class, my back up against white cinderblock, hiding behind a piece of half-filled paper and read my Halloween story. When I ran out of words I made stuff up: a scary climb up a…
Stripping For Strangers And The Next Plague
First, depression.
Then Becky gets what might be Lyme disease and turns out to (probably) be a staph infection – which she’s still healing from.
Next, two nights ago I got the flu. Probably. Chills, fever, runny nose, dizzy, head ache, bone ache, teeth ache, muscle ache…you get the idea. Then it went away in less than 24 hours. Totally…
Beggar’s Fortune (Part 9 – The End)
If my mom wanted to know how my day really went she would stand outside my door after lights out and listen to me pray. I would tell God about filling the cheese dispensers and walking in the deep freeze on the field trip to Pizza Hut. I would tell Him how much I didn’t…
Prayer
I don’t understand prayer in the least, but now, more than ever, I
need to believe it somehow moves God to action. Here are a few
things I’m hoping you’ll pray for with me.
1. My Uncle Joel has cancer in his esophagus and stomach. He
beat it once and I believe it can be beaten again. It’s disheartening…
Beggar’s Fortune (Part 8)
Once upon a time, there was an evil king out to kill the prophet Elisha. Elisha woke up one morning to discover his city surrounded by a large number of the king’s soldiers, chariots and horses.
Elisha’s assistant was scared – maybe he counted the enemy, figured his slim odds of survival even – and Elisha…
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