Learning the Discipline of Joy
Kids have a way of keeping you humble. You can be as cool and cosmopolitan as can be, but children always bring you back to Earth. This is…
“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute…
Three years ago today I was standing with my family at Gullfoss waterfall in Iceland. It was a perfect day on the longest day of the year…
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what…
In the movie, Under the Tuscan Sun, the protagonist, Frances, is broken hearted and devastated by her husband who has admitted his infidelity, denied that he ever…
Last year, after Mary’s birth on the exact one year anniversary of losing our son Henry, a good friend said, “Now you have two children with birthdays…
Loss and grief are universal. Every one of us will encounter both at some point in our lives. The loss may look different from person to person whether it…
In the George R.R. Martin novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire, later adapted into the popular TV series, Game of Thrones, the motto of one…
Recently friends and family have asked for prayer for a variety of trials and sicknesses. Many have asked for healing, for miraculous intervention and restoration. Some have…
“Oh, how I remember fondly the the efficiency and ease of doing business in Saudi Arabia!” This is a phrase I never thought I would utter, but…
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