During college application season, students just think they are the most stressed member of the family. If the truth be known, it is usually the moms, especially those who’ve homeschooled. It seems there is so much riding on the outcome: our child’s future career and earning potential, their happiness and well-being and, to be brutally [read more] …
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A Change in Perspective
I’ve been making a concerted effort lately to learn to see things differently. A few weeks ago I made a totally unnecessary purchase of a coffee table book, That Tree: An iPhone Photo Journal Documenting a Year in the Life of a Lonely Bur Oak. On the face of it, taking a daily picture of [read more] …
Another Year, Another Choice
I don’t know about you, but the New Year always seemed not so much a fresh slate but a review of a school year that had, thus far, not gone according to plan. Maybe it was because January landed in the middle of the school year and not after it was over, but I think [read more] …
Passing the Baton
Relays were one of my favorite events as a track and field athlete. As a member of the highly proficient team, I would be in position, hand strained back, watching until my teammate, thundering down on me would yell. Once I snapped into a sprint, we had a very narrow window of opportunity for the [read more] …
Uncomfortable Miracles
I feel rather sorry for the Israelites. Scripture records so beautifully the miracles that God wrought on their behalf. It also chronicles so painfully (and so publicly) their ungrateful reactions to the miracles they would have handled differently. Take manna. Here was a food they didn’t have to grow, kill, cut up or preserve for [read more] …