“And all my life You have been faithful. All my life You have been so, so good. With every breath that I am able. Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God” I accidentally broke my dad’s ribs once. No, really. When I was around ten years old, my dad was lying on the h...
Read MoreEveryone kept asking me if it hurt! “How did it feel?” “Will you do it again?” “Really, YOU!?” I did something this year that I never thought in a million years I would do… It wasn’t what anyone would expect at all, especially me. And it DID hurt. Like...
Read MoreIsn’t distraction just the worst? It’s that feeling of “I was in the middle of a sentence and now I can’t remember what I was saying because I saw something shiny. So now I must retreat in shame and return in five minutes to finish whatever I was telling you, even thou...
Read MoreIf only I were 6’3”! “Put a rock on that boy’s head! He’s growing too fast!” I always thought that turn of phrase was a little insane until my youngest, Will, grew eight (yes, EIGHT) inches in one year. Seemingly overnight he went from being my little boy to becomin...
Read MoreWhen I was in college, a friend of mine once told me never to pray, “God, increase my faith” unless I really meant it. Maybe two years before she and I had met, she had been desperately seeking God and desiring to increase her faith in him. During this time, she was in...
Read MoreAn old proverb asks the question, “How do you eat an elephant?” The REAL question, in my mind, is WHY do you want to eat an elephant? Once past that bit of philosophical nonsense, the answer is always “one bite at a time.” That’s the way we are supposed to attack diff...
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