For the last several months I’ve wrestled with a feeling of solitude and loneliness. Checking my phone like a teen-ager: no texts, no calls, no invitations, I sighed and wondered if I had any true friends. As I pondered my solitary state, I had a thought: maybe God is using this estranged condition to highlight something beneath the surface, as He often does. Rarely (if ever) obvious, he hides in the background of feelings and events, waiting for us to discover Truth in our o

Day after day, 100° or more... If I wasn’t a native Texan, if I didn’t have deep roots here, if I didn’t have more to love here than the climate, I might run. But I know that this extremely hot summer isn’t the norm. In fact, the last two summers were unusually cool for Texas. I remember this for a particular reason, which I’ll explain. I have a thing for water, but it wasn’t always so. Several years ago, the idea of submersion in the miraculous substance of H20 became fixed