Time for Change

Time for Change

Is it time for change? Sometimes it’s hard to understand why children act they way they do.  You teach them a principle and repeat it consistently, yet they still tend to ignore what you believe to be in their best interest.  This defiant behavior, which is not always...
The Last First Day of Kindergarten

The Last First Day of Kindergarten

Every month, us “Tommy Mommies” will share around a different topic that’s important to us at that time; this month we’re each discussing …Back to School! Whether you’ve just sent your last child off to college, put a child in...
Are you living?

Are you living?

Are you living? On a trip to Florida last fall, the kids and I went to church with some of our favorite friends. We couldn’t bear to part ways, so we continued on to a bakery afterwards to grab a quick breakfast treat. It was such a beautiful and uncommonly cool...

How does God look?

How does God look in your life? On the way to church yesterday morning, Britton asked if God was ever a lizard. I don’t think it was a deep theological question as much as it was a little boy trying to fit Jesus into an imagine he was looking at in his book....
Influence

Influence

As I was driving out of our apartment complex the other day, I noticed some interesting parking configurations. In one section, someone had parked at an angle, going over their line boundary. SO the person next to them overcompensated and went even futher outside...

Celebrity Jesus?

Celebrity Jesus? Those two words are not likely partners. But after I attended the Keith Urban concert and saw all the hands reaching up the stage fighting just to touch a piece of him, I couldn’t help but draw the parallel between that behavior and the way the...