Christian leaders cannot simply be persons who have well-informed opinions about the burning issues of our time. Their leadership must be rooted in the permanent, intimate relationship with the incarnate Word, Jesus and they need to find there the source for...
“I’m working on being more spontaneous,” she said with a straight face and all the seriousness of someone for whom spontaneity is struggle. She was one of my first mentors and the comment was made in passing, but it’s stuck with me for sixteen...
After the early morning flurry of getting the older two out the door and onto the bus, I reached into the refrigerator and gingerly slid out the cool, glass baking dish covered with a layer of plastic wrap and tinfoil. It was Sophia’s birthday and I was dropping...
Sophia asked for art supplies for her tenth birthday and a friend dropped off a huge bag filled to overflowing a few days later. “I should’ve asked for art supplies for my birthday!” I said, admittedly jealous. She opened them that night and sprawled them...
This is Isaiah,offering me some of his ice cream cone. He must have been about 2 years old. Check out those sweet curls! (I’m re-sharing this post from 2014 as we gear up for summer here again. The twins graduate from preschool this...
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