Suffering Bears Gifts: 5 Lessons of One-legged Days
“Suffering always comes bearing a gift.”
In the nine days, since my Achilles repair surgery, I’ve received too many gifts to count.
But the biggest one is this.
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“I Could Wish”: To This Man, On Our 29th Anniversary
I don’t know if any marriage is easy. I could wish it was, but I know ours is not.
But nothing worth having comes easy, I say—except grace.
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Why I Cannot Abide “You’re Only as Happy as Your Least Happy Child”
She meant well. My friend was only trying to sympathize. Kelly wasn’t the first to say it after she heard about our son. In my younger mothering days, I believed it, too—that I could only be as happy as my least happy child. But now I don’t think it’s true. Content Means Sufficient Because I’m learning…
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Active Contentment: Puddings, Chimney-Pots & Dad’s Latte Froth
“True contentment,” G. K. Chesterton wrote, “is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.”
So how do we cultivate such contentment?
Chesterton’s surprising connection between /kənˈtent/ and /ˈkäntent/ has lately been a world of help to me.
