Every morning, you wake up to a fresh start—a clean slate, a brand new chance.
Fresh Starts are short pieces that I write whenever they arrive on my doorstep. Most Fresh Starts include, in addition to my words, a quote and a Scripture. After I write a Fresh Start, I always practice it. I hope you will, too. What Martin Laird said of his book, I say of Fresh Starts: “The[se] observations and reflections . . . are but paper boats on the river. Perhaps one or two will make landfall with you.” Subscribe to receive Fresh Starts by email, or follow on Facebook.
Recent Fresh Starts
I awoke again this morning to a white, frozen world--snow and ice and the kind of cold that hurts. The trees have long been bare. . . .
There was once a little boy who lived in a small town. One morning, his parents told him to get ready for. . . .
One evening, I found myself alone for a few hours in a sea of strangers. The room was. . . .
If you had seen the handful of dull, lumpy amaryllis bulbs that lived for weeks on our kitchen counter amidst the potatoes and onions, you would be stunned and amazed if. . . .