What is your biggest fear?
Maybe it’s the looming 5-minute presentation in your communications class, or a phobia of snakes or spiders or other things that creep and crawl. My guess is that it’s something more. Deep down, it probably has something to do with the bigger questions of life, like what happens after we die. From my experiences as a college student and working with them, the number one concern of this generation is an all-consuming fear of wasting their life.
Read MoreWhat do you want to do the rest of your life?
What’s your major?
What’s your plan after graduation?
These are the questions that haunt just about every college student. Getting grilled by your parents can be hard enough, but holiday breaks with extended family can be downright brutal and even embarrassing.
Read More“Is this your daughter?” the man in the gym asked my husband, Tony. He was not referring to the little girl that happened to be standing beside Tony. He was talking about me. “This is my wife,” Tony responded. What went through that man’s head next, we will never know.
Read MoreWhy would a man worth $3.6 billion give one thought to the kid across the train tracks living in government housing?
Read MoreAfter running gashers at the end of football practice one hot July afternoon, Coach Johnson called our team together to huddle up. We were all winded and on the verge of throwing in the towel: our team was the laughing stock of Lexington, and our vision of becoming a powerhouse was looking pretty unlikely...
Read MoreGood ol’ college. Four (or five, or six, or an indefinite amount of) years to relax and revel in irresponsibility. Like a parenthesis to life’s journey, our culture has essentially conceded this phase and offered college students a free pass on the normal rules and expectations of life.
And, not surprisingly, college students are eager to take our culture up on the offer...
Read MoreOne of the most beautiful chapels in the world is on the campus of my Alma matter, Berry College in Rome, GA. The name of the chapel is Frost Chapel. This chapel is dear to me for many reasons...
Read MoreThere are moments in your life when you know that you are experiencing God’s “smile” in special ways. Last night was one of those moments for me and I thought I would write about it so that others might experience His smile in a similar way one day as well...
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