I didn’t know what to expect when I went to see the movie “Overcomer.” I just knew it checked off some boxes. It had a sports theme, it was a Christian movie, and I actually knew one of the actors, Camy Arnett, who played Thomas Hill, the blind man in the movie. Camy and his…
Have you ever had a washing machine that has gotten out of balance? It sounds bad. It usually happens because you’ve put too many clothes in. And then after a loud struggle in the barrel, it eventually stops. Life can be like that. We really don’t mean to do it. We just keep adding things…
It all started in November of 2018 when I spoke to incarcerated women in a Lafayette, Louisiana jail. Before going in, I was preparing myself for hardened looking criminals. I imagined rough-skinned females with cigars hanging out of their mouths. (I know they don’t allow cigars in the jail, but that is the image that…
Do you love someone so much that you think your heart will burst? So much love that there are no words to describe the depth, length, and height you would go for that person? So much love that you wish to shelter them from life’s storms? Could you overcome your selfish instincts to let your…
Over the past year, I have realized I am not like the great patriarch, Abraham, in the Bible, who when God said, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you,” he dropped everything and went—no questions asked. No, I believe Moses and I are kin because…