Over the last few weeks I got a chance to watch my friend process the loss of his mother Sharon. Sharon went home to join "Preach" late last week. This morning, on the day of the funeral, I watched my friend doing what he does so often. This picture speaks so much more than who this man is. It speaks of who Preach and Sharon were, who the entire family is. I met Scott in 1980, Preach and Sharon in 1987. In those 30+ years, neither Preach nor Sharon ever spoke an unkind w

When, after his self-directed pep talk, Jason Vallotton hit me with the "Dave, you are a great man of God but I wouldn't want your life. You don't take care of your body or your soul and that's wrong"; I found myself struggling through a balance of knowing he was speaking truth but being totally caught off guard with the statements. Jason continued both generously speaking about my spirit man, but also prophetically noting how I had been warring against illegal statements th