The power of prayer a million times over

This week so many people saw the injury to Buffalo Bills defense player Damar Hamlin on live TV as it happened. In fact, it was the most watched NFL game on ESPN in years, something like over 22 million were watching. It just so happened that this heavily watched game included an injury unlike anyContinue reading “The power of prayer a million times over”

Merry Christmas from Out of the Wilderness

First, thank you to everyone who’s followed my blog this year! For multiple reasons, it’s so fun to write every day. I’ll say this, it *is* sometimes difficult to come up with something to write about daily, as I’m sure you can imagine. I tend to write mostly about music in TV commercials because IContinue reading “Merry Christmas from Out of the Wilderness”

Prayers and wishes

During one of last week’s football games the commentator was telling the story of one of the players who had a hardship. After explaining the story he said something along the lines of, “Our thoughts and prayers are with you,” except he said… “prayers and wishes.” I get it that people are tired of hearingContinue reading “Prayers and wishes”

Two favorite quotes from C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity”

I found “Mere Christianity” at a local thrift store here in Nashville and while I’m not one to do anything at the time that thing is popular, I didn’t read the book in college when everyone else did. Dadgumit, I should have! I’m so stubborn sometimes, and sometimes it comes at a cost. Such isContinue reading “Two favorite quotes from C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity””

When the sun is out, every low-flying plane casts a shadow

I tend to notice things that other people might think odd. It’s a quirk of mine that I don’t particularly dislike, even if I feel weird about it sometimes. Like one time when a small plane was flying overhead and it was low enough to cast a clear and defined shadow. I thought, “Oh, IContinue reading “When the sun is out, every low-flying plane casts a shadow”