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@faithelice is my best deck hand! She was raised on this Airboat grabbing baby gators as a baby herself. She didn’t just rescue this dog she rescued and helped lift 70 or more adults into this boat today. So proud of my baby girl. She fell asleep on the way home. Love seeing my girl rest. Pray for these people. Lots of older couples and many with health issues. One man was bedridden floating in his bed so afraid of drowning he was crying. @faithelice helped get him in the boat and to a hotel. Ta …

Jack couldn’t be found as the rain fell hard. 48 inches of rain in 36 hours. He managed to survive the storm and survive 3 days in the flood before we got to him. He was so excited to see us he was whining. Hurt is an opportunity for love to grow. Our responsibility is to run to the storm not from it. It’s in the storm that lives are changed. Psalm 23,”The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters.He restoreth my soul: …

Got over 20 inches of rain last night.....Several calls this morning from people trapped in their homes. Tried to leave without @faithelice this morning and she looked at me and said what do you think you are doing because there was no way I was leaving without her and It’s a good thing she came, we made a few rescues I couldn’t have done alone. We have been going for over 8 hours now. Never thought I would see another Harvey but we did today. Please pray for the thousands of families affected i …

Unreal what can happen in 12 hours of insane rain. Nothing more powerful than the difference a simple helping hand can make. Thank you Jesus for loving me despite myself and helping me learn what love really is and how it works. Forever grateful even in the storms. John 15:13 greater love has no one than this....to lay down their life for their friend. Because I love Jesus you are all my friends. …

We must first understand our children are new to this life. They really don’t know how to sort out their feelings with what is right. We shouldn’t tolerate their selfishness but we also need to understand they really don’t know the truth yet. We need to take the time to explain to them how to put themselves in the other persons shoes. We must teach them how to love others as if they were them. If we take the time to help them understand that we want them to live a selfless life for their own sak …

In a lifetime, a man may be forced to defend others from physical harm a few times, unless he has volunteered his life to defend others on a daily basis in the military or law enforcement. God bless them! For the rest of us, if faced with the challenge, we should be prepared and willingly accept the risk. I always knew this, but what I never considered or prepared enough for was that on a daily basis, I had a responsibility to protect others, and even those I love most from myself. (Not suggesti …

Saying we are sorry can mean a lot of things. The greatest evidence we are not seeking truth or truly repenting is when we look in the eyes of truth and make more excuses. True repentance is wrecked by the fact the truth means it’s the problem. So wrecked, it changes directions and will do most anything to make sure it never stands for a lie again. It no longer fights for itself, but fights for the truth despite itself. It will no longer be the plaintiff or the defendant in its own life. It will …

How do we know what to do when we are in a place we believe God called us to be, but then wonder if we are where God wants us to be? I’m in a place like that right now. Where I wonder, did I miss God, or is where I am where I am supposed to be? I have been here before. I have been here because I did what I wanted, not what God wanted. And I have been here because I was where God wanted me to be. I have learned that in either circumstance, if I am willing to follow Jesus right now, in this moment …

The world’s message of making sure people give us what we earned, are owed, need, have coming, or deserve is a lie intended to lead us to destroy ourself. No one owes us anything, and nothing we are missing in our own lives belongs to anyone else. The only thing ever missing in our own lives is what we have to give, and what Jesus has for us. Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. Matthew 16:25 For if …

I used to fight to forgive myself, but then I thought about how I feel about the person that hurt me forgiving themselves, and nothing about that made sense. The truth is, we have no power to forgive ourselves. The only power we have is to repent and forgive others. The beauty and the miracle is that God forgives us. Then our responsibility becomes accepting His forgiveness so we can move forward living a loving life. So His forgiveness in our lives is not in vain, and so His sacrifice on the cr …