Not a day goes by where someone doesn’t speculate on “what’s wrong with America”. Not a day goes by where someone doesn’t post a video of someone doing something awful to someone else. Sometimes it’s a child or teenager. Sometimes it’s a parent. Sometimes it’s a law enforcement officer. Sometimes it’s a pastor. Sometimes it’s […]
Read MoreI look now at my parents from a parent’s perspective. I see more clearly the adult issues that they lived through while parenting me. I have a better idea of how hard it is to maintain stability in the midst of change or heartache or grief or crises of faith. I see now how far […]
Read MoreIt’s a lesson we all have to learn eventually – you can’t please everyone. Along the same lines is also this truth, your reputation won’t be worth much to some people. So you have to choose carefully, the reputation you build for yourself with the life you live. You have to decide just who it […]
Read MoreI’m so behind, I’d like to quit. This isn’t the first time in my life I’ve felt this way though. Have you ever felt this way? I don’t really like quitting things, so I usually don’t (sometimes to my own detriment). Of course, sometimes things quit me. Or sometimes, I don’t quite quit them, but […]
Read MoreHave you heard the story of the Velveteen Rabbit? It’s about a beautiful child’s toy who becomes “real” once he is loved and played with so much that his outsides are shabby and worn. Being loved well meant being part of a messy life with the little boy who loved him, and that took it’s […]
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