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Brennan Manning, the beloved author of The Raggamuffin Gospel died this past Friday, April 12. I never read the Raggamuffin Gospel, but I did somehow stumble onto one of Manning’s later books, Abba’s Child. His gentle yet piercing...
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Look at that beautiful fuzz! My friend posted on facebook that she was planning to take her little boy for his first hair cut and since our boys are the same age I felt a wave of maternal anxiety at the idea. My youngest arrived with a precious...
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“But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion . . .”...
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She told him, “When I was in college I read a folktale about a father pursuing a son who’d run far away, from one world to the next. The father called to him, ‘Please come back!’ But his son looked across the great gulf between them and shouted...
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I sat in the living room last week rocking my poor, sick, sleeping boy and watched while his twin brother explored a small wooden chair. He walked diligently to the book basket, chose a board book, then toddled quickly over to the chair. Placing the...
