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Tell Me a Story

Tales from the fields of God's heart

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When was the last time you listened to someone's story?

Psalm 43:4

Psalm 43:4

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God Then I'll go. When is...

Choosing to be different

Choosing to be different

What will make me different? In the morning hours, my hands shift from the daily Psalm and Deuteronomy readings to 1 John 4, where I find...

Wrestling with God

Wrestling with God

Angels meet in God's camp. Favor is sought, yet fear returns to grip firm. "O God of my fathers...I am unworthy of the all's. Deliver me...

Before the throne

Before the throne

Before the throne of God one day, I will bow just knowing that I will serve Him day and night (in the very place He dwells-the most holy...

Meditations

Meditations

Over the past few weeks, I've been meditating on God's word. For those who know me and the time I love to spend with my open Bible, that...

Listen to the sound

Listen to the sound

I just googled information on our 5 senses to support what I found in Scripture this morning. Here's a direct quote: Hearing empowers...

Open Arms

Open Arms

As a classroom teacher, I'm able to sit at our Thankful table and sometimes spend as much as four hours a day in Bible study during the...

LORD of hosts

LORD of hosts

When I first read through 1 Samuel 1, I almost see Hannah as this "weak in other's eyes" woman who weeps and refuses to eat because she...

The seed remains

The seed remains

In Ezra 5, I notice the prophet Haggai was prophesying to the Jews who had returned from their 70 year exile to rebuild the house of the...

I didn't ask

I didn't ask

Something very beautiful happens between King David and the Lord in 2 Samuel 7, and I can't stop reading it. The king is talking to...

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About Me

I am a learner. I have an insatiable desire to learn, so I read a ridiculous amount of books. And, because I love to read, I process my thoughts through journal-writing.

I guess this would also make me a writer.

I think that a writer puts their time into something they want to read again, and hopefully invite someone else to read as well. The words mean something to them, and they want those words to mean something to others, too.

I believe that readers and writers are also pretty good story-tellers, and there is nothing I love more than a good story.

Stories tell us the things we need to know, and not just the facts we seem to think define us. I am more interested in someone who drives a 95 Astro van than someone who drives a new car with a personalized license plate, because I know there's a story behind it (and I love that I am married to the one who drives the van).

So I wrote a book called Tell Me a Story. In it, you will find stories of people that most don't sit and listen to; maybe because they've never traveled out of the country in order to hear them. Or maybe they've never really thought about the importance of just listening.

I didn't listen because I thought I was special; I listened because I believed they were.

I've taught high school Bible for more than 20 years, written curriculum for all of my classes, led mission trips around the world, taken lots of pictures, made lots of journal entries, and prayed every single day for the people whose faces appear in my heart. Each blog post will take you to a story; some will be from my memory, some from my journal posts, some from people I'm around every day, and others will be from the best Story-teller I know, Who wrote a book long before I did. His story keeps writing new stories in mine. I hope someday to get mine published so that others will be encouraged to read more of His.

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