For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice. Zechariah 4:10a Hi, Mom. This is Sam, our introvert ten year-old announced. You told me to call at two o’clock. It’s two o’clock. It may seem a small thing, Sam’s call. But it’s big, because Sam isn’t much for talking on the phone. Besides that aversion,…
But we your people, the sheep of your pasture will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise. Psalm 79:13 Gabe dashed upstairs and scanned the room. He found her at once. The sight was cause for both mile-wide grin and mile-high shoulder sigh. Dinah, in typical lagomorph fashion,…
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…