Have you ever gotten out of bed in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom? Perhaps you don’t want to wake anyone else up. Or maybe, if you live alone like I do, you just know that it’s going to hurt your eyes if you turn on the lights. So, you push [...]

Last week, I took two very-much-needed days of comp time from work and break time from my life and went to the beach with my friend, Ginny, and her family. We talked, we laughed, we shopped, we ate. I chatted with her sweetheart of a husband and giggled with her two precious little girls. It [...]

I’m breaking all the rules today and reposting a blog that I’ve already posted not once, but twice. But I can’t help it. It’s what’s on my heart tonight. I’ve been feeling broken lately and tonight, as I walked my dog under the just-past-full moon, the Holy Spirit nudged me that it was time for [...]

I love free stuff, don’t you? Especially free stuff that feeds your spirit! And so I’m doubly excited that I get to announce the winner of a free book! And not just a free book, but a fabulous free book—The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns. Today, I’m giving away one copy… My co-facilitator/friend, [...]

I’ve been back from Sudan for a month now and have posted a half dozen times about it. In case you missed a post, let me give you some quick links here: Returning from Sudan Falling in Love in Africa Africa’s Top Ten Tying Up Loose Ends When the Sun Rises at Midnight Scenes from [...]

On August 19, 1972, in a little United Methodist Church in Fairmont, North Carolina, John Neal Salter, Jr. married the tall and lovely Carolyn Marie Staton. My parents. (But they weren’t my parents then. I came along later. Like more than 5 years later.) (And yes, for those of you that saw my tweets earlier [...]

I had never heard of a panic attack before and I didn’t know that was what was going on that morning.  I just knew that I had woken up stressed out.  As soon as my Dad knocked on my bedroom door to wake me up for school, the familiar gnawing in my stomach started.  But [...]

Last Wednesday, Jason Stasyszen and I finished facilitating our second book discussion on Craig Groeschel’s tremendous book, The Christian Atheist. Several of you joined us for that discussion and I never could have predicted the lessons and blessings that God gave through the study and discussion. So many weeks, the process was one of pulling [...]

At the end of last week, the receptionist from Operation Teaching Tools and Every Nation Education came to a campmeeting service and gave me a packet with 5 CD’s full of pictures from our trip to Africa. It took me most of the weekend to go through them and tonight, I just decided to grab a [...]

Anyone who has spent any amount of time with me can tell you that I’m a pretty high-strung individual. I’m easily excitable, easily frustrated, and easily depressed. I’ve never been a half-way kind of person.  I see things in black and white.  I either love something (like the beach) or hate it (like okra).  When [...]