Living Between the Lines

The day after I returned from my last mission trip to the Dominican Republic, my friends Billy Coffey and Katdish “introduced” me to the blog of Chris Sullivan. Chris is currently in the mission field in the Dominican Republic with a ministry called I Love Baseball. Recently, while comparing notes on our separate missions in [...]

I promise that this is the last repost for a while. But I wanted to post it because this has been on my mind for several days. Lately, I’ve been feeling pretty broken. Since my new readers haven’t read this story and since I really need the reminder, here it is: When I was a [...]

Today’s post was inspired by my friend Ginny at Make a Difference to One. During a discussion with her on Twitter, I found myself tweeting to her a story I’d once heard. After I’d sent the first 140-character installment, I realized that I couldn’t remember all of the details of the story. Well, I couldn’t leave her hanging, [...]

I’ve only been blogging here since March and so really, I thought it was a little silly to repost anything quite so soon. Then, I started thinking about the fact that I have so many new readers that missed the first months of life here at Living Between the Lines. I’ve got to give the [...]

I never was much of a tree-climber when I was growing up. We live in “the land of the long-leaf pine” and if you’ve ever seen a long-leaf pine, they’re not really climber-friendly trees. Mostly of them have tall, slender bodies with arms high and stretched higher. With my short arms and legs I couldn’t [...]

When I was a freshman in college, my Dad gave me a set of tapes from a retreat that he had been to and enjoyed. I hadn’t been able to attend the retreat, but I knew most of the speakers and so listening to the tapes was the next best thing to actually being there. [...]

If you’ve read my blog for long, you know that I often write serious stuff and that I almost never write funny stuff.  In fact, if you didn’t know me in real life, you might think I’m overly serious and stuffy. But the people that know me in my non-writing life know that I can be [...]

I just spent most of my evening in the yard among the ants and mosquitoes. But it was worth it because I was doing one of my favorite fall activities: burning yard trash. I know it probably sounds a little strange (especially if you’re citified). But there’s something very peaceful about a controlled fire. Watching [...]

It’s a little odd, isn’t it? The way memory works. How when I think back to the most horrific days of my life, I remember the most inane little details. My most vivid memory of September 11, 2001 was the squishy crunch of dewy pine needles under my feet as I walked to my nine [...]

Surprise! You won’t find me here at Living Between the Lines today! Instead, I’ve taken a little roadtrip to my friend, Katdish’s blog. A couple of weeks ago, I got a very unexpected invitation to write a guest post for Kat’s blog. I’ve been a regular reader of hers for a few months now—since my [...]