writings from Nathan Wesley Smith
I had the joy of playing a concert with my buddy Mike Weaver of Big Daddy Weave Saturday night in Johnson City, TN. Mike and I met when I was 18 years old as we were ‘randomly assigned’ to be roommates in college. That was half my life ago. At age 36, standing beside my friend on the platform Saturday …
The issue of ‘gifts’ really seems like it should be a non-issue. If someone wants to give you something, the attitude of most people is ‘ok, so give it to me!’ We are either given something or not and that seems to be where most people leave the issue. I hear this logic applied to the issue of spiritual gifts …
My heart is full. In the past week I have spent time with my dear friends, Jean & Giuliana Gadotti in Brazil, speaking at their church, O Refugio. I returned home and was invited to speak at my home church in NC, The Refuge. Then I was invited to play a song with Big Daddy Weave at their concert last …
We people sure are funny. After all these years we are still trying to figure out how to separate ‘cause and effect’. Do you know what I mean? Often times we either want the consequence or results of hard work but don’t want to actually do the hard work. Other times we want to do whatever we feel like doing …
As a kid I enjoyed catching bugs. I even did a school project on ‘entomology’ (the study of bugs) and had a showcase of the different critters I had caught over time. Living in South Alabama, at the time, there were many to choose from and plenty to catch! I was always fascinated by the caterpillars; the many shapes and …
Some things just seem like a ‘no-brainer’. You go the grocery store looking for watermelon and find out they are ‘buy one get one free’. Praise the Lord! There’s nothing to think about… you get two. That was easy. However, there are other times in life where the ‘obvious thing’ is not as obvious as it may seem. In Malcolm …