Our three-year-old grand-daughter Piper is a fount of illustrative material, so when our daughter called the other day with another “Piper-ism” I wasn’t surprised. Evidently, they’d had sort of a tough day. Piper looked at her mother—hand on hip—and said, “Mommy, I love you, but sometimes it’s hard.” Seriously? How can you not chuckle at that declaration? I’m guessing her …
Fruit by Tina Chen
As though I’ve never understood it before, I have been struck anew recently by the metaphor of fruit in the New Testament. It hit me the other day that fruit is just that- FRUIT – meaning that it is the result of something else. It seems so ridiculously obvious and yet it was a complete epiphany for me. But the …