Ragamuffin Soul

We have a church.
Soul City Church.
It was instrumental in bringing a transformational mindset into my family and marriage.  We would sit on Jarrett and Jeanne’s sofa for hours and weeks and months talking about how to live out this new way of thinking about church and the Gospel.
Last November I wrote this about our hearts [...]

Just west of Amarillo, TX there are a number of Cadillacs buried nose down in the dirt.
Right off the highway.
When I was a kid and we drove across country EVERY summer and passed these perpendicular coaches we would NEVER stop.
There was really no way to get to them back in the 80’s.
But in the late [...]

We were 90 minutes from the hotel.
We had been driving for 7 hours.
It had bee a great day of National Parks, singing in the car, and truck stop snacks.
Then our trusty Hyundai Santa Fe broke down.
She had just had enough.
She obviously knew we were in New Mexico, her names sake and wanted to stay a [...]

Happy Monday Ragamuffins.
I’m in the car for a week long drive across the country with the wife and 3 kids.
From Los Angeles to Atlanta, GA

Hopefully we won’t have another moment like this.

Speaking of meltdowns…
You guys are creative geniuses. We survived without DVD players as kids. What sorts of things did you [...]

Ward Lake in the High Sierras north of Fresno, CA is Heathers favorite spot on the planet.  It is hours from civilization with no cell service or electricity of any kids for miles around.
She forces me up there and the first hour is a rough detox but then I’m in heaven.
This weekend we fished, hiked, [...]

You have dreams for your kids.  Your parents had dreams for you.
Sure. The right thing to say is that you just want them to be happy and chase their own dreams.
But nope. Not me. If my child one day dreams of dancing on a pole…Happiness on a pole is not in my [...]

Usher? JT? Anyone?
Sign this kid quick.
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Out of all the years I have lived in Los Angeles, I have never been to the Griffith Observatory. That was until tonight.
The night would have been a complete success had Losiah not had his tiny little paw flat on the elevator door as it opened, sucking his hand into a crack only a [...]

HAHAHAHA.
I’m not gonna lie.
I love the title of this post.
Losiah sleeps with his “tig” every night.
Sohaila sleeps with her “piggy” every night.
Seanna sleeps with her “Shamu” every night.
I get to sleep with my “Heather” every night. Oh wait. We are talking about being a kid here.
In that case I slept with Kermit when I [...]

No stage, no sermon, no song, no script, can come close to the lasting impact this world will feel because of what I poured into my children.
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