Month: November 2011

Giving Thanks Even After Thanksgiving

If you’ve ever brought pepper spray to a Walmart on Black Friday and used it to “get ahead,” you might be a redneck. Feel free to steal my joke, Jeff Foxworthy. If you get honked at, shot at, sprayed at, or trampled over the next few weeks, you were...

All Dogs (and even cats!) Go To Heaven

  Growing up, my family always had pets. Dogs, cats, birds, fish, hamsters, ponies, spider monkeys – Ok, maybe not all of those; I mean, wouldn’t it be ridiculous to have a pet hamster?! When one of them died, we lost a family member. Inevitably someone would ask, “Will we...

Glimpses of Heaven

When tragedy strikes, many find it comforting to say, “God is in control.” They don’t mean that God caused the tragedy; there’s little comfort in that. They mean that somehow, someway, in the midst of hopelessness and despair, God has a plan and everything is going according to plan....