Encouraging Extraordinary!

  When things don’t go our way… In elementary school, I participated in Royal Ambassador basketball. “Royal Ambassadors,” or “RAs,” was a B...

Why are we still here? I sometimes wonder how kids survive ‘til adulthood. I had gotten an archery set for a birthday in elementary school,...

Who has the keys? In my tweenage years in the Summers, I was outside playing most of the time, playing pickup football, basketball, stickbal...

  Parents, Who is speaking for you? After college, I had the opportunity to travel to South Africa for a month with a college friend. The ...

  What do you do with your strength? As a kid, I looked forward to getting up on Saturday mornings and watching cartoons in my pajamas on t...

A preschool cousin came to visit my childhood home when I was in middle school. He loved the green, sloping front yard that overlooked the l...

  Parents, What do we do with shame? … As a young minister, in one of my first churches, I was excited to be asked to be on the church’s sof...