a) Rabbit, b) Rodeo, c) Red Kool-aid, or a d) Riding without a helmet? You know which one just doesn’t belong? It may have started when I stopped wearing my bike helmet. Or when my shower came while I was on my bike, miles from home. It wasn’t exactly free-solo climbing or cliff jumping. Still,…
You see, if everyone is special, then no one is. -David McCullough, Jr., You Are Not Special and Other Encouragements, p. 308 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character. -Romans 5:3-4 I pounced the moment it hit my inbox. What self-respecting parent could resist this subject…
One of the biggest perks of parenting are all the low-cost life lessons. Likenings abound with kids around; we compare our realities to deeper spiritual realities. Mohawks and BopIt!s are fresh from last week. Mohawks Gabe had a mohawk. Technically, it was a fauxhawk. But, hair today, gone tomorrow. Or last Saturday; Gabe’s lasted five days. (The ‘stache stuck…
And I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying, “O LORD GOD, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours? Please let me go over and see the…