I will tell you in this space what I told our church two years ago as Randy and I faced the congregational interrogation while we were candidating for the Sr. Pastor position. A church member asked if I sang or played the piano. My response was this: The most musical part of my entire self is my name. Melody. That’s as good as it gets when it comes to me being musical. I don’t ... Read More »
Drive-by Donations
I remember having a conversation with a Christian woman about the needy people in our area. She is a very generous person and has a wonderful heart. She talked about how they adopt a family each year at Christmas and will anonymously drop off presents on the doorstep. Sometimes they will leave bags of food on the steps or other specific needs. These are usually families that ... Read More »
“Man of the Cloth”
After sharing my testimony at a church one night a lady came up to me afterwards and asked, “So what’s it like?” A little confused I said, “What’s what like?” She leaned in and almost in a whisper said, “You know, what’s it like being married to a ‘MAN OF THE CLOTH’?” The first thought that came to my mind when I thought of “my man” and “cloth” was his underwear on the floor ... Read More »
Wouldn’t Charge Him a Dime!
I’ll admit that I’ve always been a bit naive. When I was about 13 years old my Mother took me to a very nice hotel for dinner. We were waiting to meet my father so we sat in the large beautiful lobby of downtown Atlanta. A few minutes into our wait an older man came walking in with a much younger woman next to him. She was wearing a leather skirt, fish net hose and lots of ... Read More »
Ladies and Gentlemen
I was picking up, Mitchell, our second grader from school and was getting his homework folder out of his desk when a pink piece of paper caught my attention. I opened it and realized that it was Mitchell’s first “love note”. On a torn off piece of construction paper, in childlike print it said, “Will you be my boyfriend?” I tried hard not to join my great grandmother in heaven ... Read More »
In my world
I grew up going to the grocery store with my Mother and if there was a scantily clad woman on the front cover of a magazine she would politely and matter of factly turn the magazine over. Better to be exposed to the back side of a magazine than the back side of a half dressed Daisy Duke. This always embarrassed me and I swore I would never do it when I got older. I'm ... Read More »
First Impressions are off with a bang
I had a missed call on my cell phone so I returned the call and the man (one of our church leaders) said with a laugh, “I really liked that voice mail on your phone.” I said, “What voicemail?” He was quiet and then I said, “For real, I didn’t know I had voicemail in place yet.” Then I suddenly had this thought of pure horror as I recalled trying to record a new voicemail ... Read More »
The birds and the bees….and aguas
James Dobson always has my ear on parenting issues and so when I heard him talk about children and sex education I wanted to listen carefully. Dobson suggests that a parent have the sex talk with their child as they begin Kindergarten. He explains it much better than I can but the main idea is that it’s better for a child to have an initial understanding of sex explained ... Read More »