Sterling Terrell

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The Clock Is Running

The Clock Is Running

The clock is running for all of us, isn’t it?

The question is, what are you going to do with it?

Are you going to punt?

Or is there important work to do?

I, for one, have a million things to get back to…

Beside me on a shelf sits a human skull that I bought forty years ago in an open-air market in Mexico City. It reminds me that “All men are like grass and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall” (1 Peter 1: 24, NIV). It reminds me that I have work to do and the clock is running.

-John Erickson, Story Craft (Amazon)

Just A Mother

Just A Mother

Saying “I’m just a mother” or “just a father” – misses the point of your significance.

You are not just anything.

Not just a mom, or dad, or brother, or sister, or child, or friend.

These are some of the most important relationships we will ever have. They are also the foundation for all our future relationships.

These things matter. They are not small things.

Because everything matters, and it matters forever.

(Seriously, watch the video in the link directly above.)

How do we measure the importance of a mother? For me, it’s millions of Hank the Cowdog books and the innocent laughter of the families who read them. When I hear a woman say, “I’m just a mother,” I have to smile. My “just a mother” was the most important teacher I ever had. She’s the one who instilled in me a sense of vocation.

-John Erickson, Story Craft (Amazon)

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