(If you're reading via email, click here to listen to the audio version of today's post.) I recently had a dental procedure and the doctor told me to stop using my current mouthwash and to instead do warm salt rinses 3 times a day until my mouth is healed. He went on to explain that the wound in my mouth would benefit from 3 main characteristics of salt. Salt has antibacterial properties and can therefore minimize the risk for infection. Salt is abrasive. A warm salt solution is gentle Continue Reading
Persevere
A family friend recently shared about how he has been watching his 9-month old daughter’s endless efforts to pull her self up. She crawls over to the nearest structure, gets a grip, and goes at it. Her goal is to stand. Oftentimes she falls back to the floor. But she tries it all over again. One day her dad noticed something that I find absolutely fascinating. He picked her up by grabbing her the way he has probably every day of her 9-month old life when he realized she was more firm in some Continue Reading
Our . . .
On my ride to work most mornings, I tune in to KHCB, a local radio station that features the sermons of one of my favorite Bible teachers, Dr. Tony Evans. Recently, he taught a lesson that I found very insightful. I’d like to share with you the notes I jotted down after reflecting on one word in particular found in the passage of scripture from which he taught: The Lord’s Prayer is a prayer that Jesus taught His disciples in Matthew 6:9-13. There, we find these words: “. . . Our Father in Continue Reading