Dinner for Six

This past month I had the opportunity to write a post for my friend Matt Tuckey’s blog, Y Thoughts.  Matt is a good friend and the Associate Executive Director of our local YMCA.  You can start reading the post here, then click on the link to...

Stories of Abundance: Feast or Famine?

I’m continuing a series of short pieces on abundance (this is the third, click through to read the first two: In the Garden and Sowing and Reaping).  Sunday evenings and Monday mornings can often be a time of anxiety for me as I worry...

Easy Affection?

Sometimes ten month old Levi rests his little hand on his twin brother Isaiah’s pudgy thigh when they ride side-by-side in the jogging stroller.  It looks like an adorably casual gesture of affection.  Occasionally they even appear to be holding hands as...

An Empty Box Can . . .

We’re three weeks into our cardboard collection project.  Our goal is to fill our back room from floor to ceiling with cardboard that we will then donate to Project Share.  My original question was, “Can an empty box make a difference?” Here’s what I’ve...

Can an Empty Box Make a Difference?

In his book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life, Donald Miller explores the idea of life as story.  Miller describes talking with a friend who’s teenage daughter has gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd and is...
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