A Time for Everything on Mid-Morning

Though he was the wisest man who ever lived , King Solomon fell off the tracks when it came to women: 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines. Really? What was the man thinking? Still, he got it right in Ecclesiastes 3 with his poetic teaching about life's seasons and cycles.

To everything there is a season....

Solomon's words capture how I feel about Mid-Morning's topics. I believe they need to reflect the realities of people's lives. Your life. My life.

So we laugh, a lot, on BLT.

And we grieve together on shows discussing losses of every kind: marriages ending in divorce; once-close families torn apart by hard hearts and misunderstandings; sickness and suffering that lead to physical death; disappointments and dissipated dreams that force us to choose giving up -- or holding fast to the hand of Jesus and beginning again.

And we celebrate. Boy, howdy, do we celebrate: God's continual presence in every moment of our lives; delicious food; beauty and goodness in its many forms, AND wise counsel and advice from experts -- be they professionals or every day people -- for living as followers of Jesus.

This past Tuesday, in back-to-back interviews, I chatted with Eric Blehm, author of the Adam Brown bio, Fearless...

Adam, Kelly, Nathan and Savannah Brown



...and Rod Dreher, author of The Little Way of Ruthie Leming...



Claire, Mike, Rebecca, Ruthie and Hannah Leming (photo taken the day after her cancer diagnosis)



...which chronicles his sister's battle with cancer. I was a weepy mess reading both books, but so grateful for the opportunity to be clearly reminded, yet again, that:

• Death is NOT the end of our lives
• The final death will be death itself (take THAT, Satan)
• Jesus' followers are called to give each other the space and grace to be the one-of-a-kind masterpieces God created us to be
• Sacrificial, servant love is POWERFUL
• As Beth Moore says, "there ain't no high like the Most High (Beth Moore, you rock!)

Tuesday, we cried. Wednesday, we celebrated wise counsel from Rhonda Stoppe on raising sons to be godly men. Thursday, Susie Larson built up our confidence in God and His good plans for us. And Friday? We welcome the time to laugh, yet again, on BLT.

Yes, there is a time for everything in life AND Mid-Morning.

I'm so grateful and glad to spend time with you every weekday morning!

Lynne

P.S. While Tuesday's interviews were stellar, I urge you to read the books, as well. How else would you know that Adam Brown wore the Batman underwear his kids gave him for Christmas whenever he went into battle, including the day he died? That he took a dare to sit for thirty seconds, bare- um, "-orbed," on a fire ants' hill, winning enough money to buy his wife a diamond necklace AND the admiration of the other Navy SEALS' wives? Or that Ruthie Leming's passion for the outdoors began when was just a toddler, barely big enough to grab her bottle, a couple of diapers, and climb into the cab of her daddy's truck when he headed out to repair fences on the family's farm? God had things to say to me through Adam's and Ruthie's stories; He has things to say to you, too.