What an amazing week celebrating our sixteenth anniversary! Almost no technology. We sent the kids to Texas to spend time with grandparents (thanks, grandparents). And all by ourselves Becky and I painted the living room, bought some furniture, didn’t cook a single meal, never touched laundry or dishes, and mostly… Read More
Becky and I are celebrating sixteen years of marriage this week, twenty-one years together. So, since I’m already doing a lot of reminiscing, how about I answer the question women ask me more than any other: How’d you and Becky meet? The first answer I always give is Hooters. But… Read More
Maybe it’s because I’m reading Grapes Of Wrath. Maybe it’s because I now travel with a banjo player. For whatever reason I woke up early this morning with a rootsy decisively Southern song in my head…a Christmas song of sorts. It’s an advent song, written from the vantage point of… Read More
I’m in Oregon this weekend with Amy Grant – which sounds like we’re on vacation together or something when, in actuality, I’m just out here speaking on behalf of Compassion at a few of her concerts. (Details here.) I sat side-stage through her whole set last night, like a wide-eyed… Read More
I grew up Baptist. We didn’t call things or people “anointed.” The first time I heard the word outside of the bible was likely at a charismatic church near the beginning of my music career. “That song is anointed.” And what he or she meant was really “I like that… Read More
Yesterday was Sambhaji’s “Gotcha Day.” It’s not the day we went to his orphanage in India and brought him home to Nashville – we never did that. Another mom and dad did. Two years ago we received a phone call from our social worker. A couple in our state had… Read More
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