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Intro to Isaiah’s Legacy: Who Is Manasseh?
Do you recognize that painfully awkward girl on the left? Maybe you know a kid that’s twelve years old. If you don’t know any twelve-year-olds, try to remember something from your own days in sixth grade or middle school. Or maybe, like me, you’ve spent a good portion of your adult life trying to forget those socially-awkward, pimple-faced, hormone-imbalanced, shaky …
Snow, Deadlines, and Christmas…Oh My!
Greetings, y’all! In today’s newsletter, I’d like to share a little glimpse of life from our little log cabin during this Christmas season. As you might have heard, winter storm Diego brought a little snow to our neck-o-the-woods. At our house, we saw 19” in 36 hours of the most beautiful, fluffy, white powder all over our mountaintop. Fantastic for keeping me …
The Power of the Prodigal
Children have a strange power over us, don’t they? A newborn hand gripping a new dad’s thumb can drive a hulking man to his knees in tears of thanks. A baby’s giggle can turn tears of grief into a hopeful smile. But a child’s rebellion can affect the whole family. How do I know? Well, we’ll save my personal story for future posts. Suffice it to say, prodigals wield a power to destroy, but when their …
Two Reasons A Good Life May Be Snuffed Out Early
I’m gonna start out a little morbid today but stay with me…we’ll have a hopeful ending. I want to tell you about a few dark weeks back in 1997. On Sunday, August 31, my girls (ages 12 and 10) and I were driving to church—only 5 minutes away—I happened to turn on the radio and we heard that Princess Diana died in a car …
The Difference Between Forgiveness and Consequences
Picture a beautiful sunny day in the Caribbean. My hubby and I had saved our pennies for a family cruise on our older daughter’s senior-year spring break. On this day we’d chosen an excursion on inner-tube motor boats. Dad got one daughter. I got the other. The guide instructed us on how to accelerate, how to steer, and off we went—about 15 of these cumbersome, floating, …