A Preacher’s Wife Richard had been called to the ministry as a young man before his thirteenth birthday. His life became defined by that calling to God. To be a part of his life was to be equally yoked to that calling and to be married to it as if the calling were your own. […]
The Girl Next Door
I Do There are not many who have been married for 53 years, and fewer still who can claim to have lived that long in faithful matrimony and still be in love. Most marriages succumb to societal expectations of what marriage is supposed to be becoming unequally weighted favoring one over the other. Some others […]
A Journey into the Past
The Trip Home For many, a journey home is highly anticipated. Seeing family and friends you’ve missed, a familiar setting where you grew up, the smells from a well-seasoned kitchen invoke memories of your childhood and bring you back to happier times. For others, like myself, the trip is always a bit more. For me, […]
The Journey Begins
Driving Home The drive from Jacksonville to Memphis takes about ten hours and forty minutes, give or take a pit stop or two. For years, I’ve made the trek across the top of Florida to Tallahassee along the pine tree-laden, truck route of Interstate 10. The highway is mostly straight and flat with no more […]