5 Practical Ways to Help Someone With a Funeral

5 Practical Ways to Help Someone With a Funeral

I hate funerals. I’ve conducted hundreds of them while I was a minister at a church and not one person in attendance ever wanted to be there. Our family recently laid our 90-year-old mother to rest and none of us wanted to be there, either. Funerals are awkward and...

Pointed Fingers Frequently Backfire

They were high school sweethearts and grew up in the same rural Midwest church as their parents and grandparents.  Everyone knew they’d get married as soon as they got out of college. One night, passion outdistanced reason and a new life was conceived.  They wouldn’t...
A Huggable Hero: Dixie Lee Spencer

A Huggable Hero: Dixie Lee Spencer

I would have climbed Mount Everest for her. Swim the English Channel? Let me get warmed up. All it took to motivate me was her smile and a Snoopy sticker. She loved Snoopy, Charlie Brown’s dog. She was my junior high teacher, Dixie Lee Spencer, and is still in the Top...