“You’re just so irritating and… and likeable!” – Annabelle Bransford, “Maverick” One thing I admire about many of my friends who are parents is their knack for creating with and for their children. They can take everyday challenges – picky eaters, messy rooms, monsters under the bed – and turn them into songs or stories […]
The Long Way
Editor’s Note: I know it’s Wednesday and our scheme is to have Discovering Resources take center stage, but since it seems we have a fairly few new readers around these parts, I wanted to share something that gets at the heart of what we’re about. This, in a way that’s a little hard to explain, […]
Invisible Dangers
Today I will make my son vulnerable to attack. Against all my maternal instincts, I will withhold his protection. My son has asthma, a diagnosis he recently earned in somewhat dramatic fashion. Until last month, I knew next to nothing about asthma. It didn’t seem like a very big deal. The few people I had known […]
Prayer of a Fumbling Disciplinarian
Father of perfect discipline, Give me a heart that loves mercy more than being right, that loves grace more than law and compassion more than control. Help me not to feel guilt when the discipline is right. Help me to discipline rightly. How many times — knowing you were watching, knowing good and well that […]
What a Wonder-full World — Part Two
“Are there real fairies in the world?” I looked up from the mushrooms I was chopping to study my five-year-old daughter’s face. The cock of her head and squint of her eyes matched the skepticism in her voice. Not long ago, a Christian man who my daughter loves told her that fairies don’t exist. She’s […]