Category: The Library
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Feasting
A year ago after my first hospitalization for a skin infection in my arm, I wrote this: John Piper said, “What choices will you make today that will give you the most pleasure a million years from now?” I ask myself. Is what I am doing today rooted in what I will gain today? Or…
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Love Notes in Lunchboxes
I finally opened up Asher’s lunchbox to clean it out on Sunday (yes, you read that right… it sat for 2 days with dirty spoons and leftover food), and I found his napkin still there. Then I sat right down in the middle of the floor and wept, because my Brian had written this on…
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This Day
Happy birthday to my wonderful man… my family man. May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10166630&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Family Man from b on Vimeo.
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Ask, Seek, Knock
It’s hard to be brave when you’re a Very Small Animal. (~Piglet, from Winnie the Pooh) My “Very Small Animal” or rather very small boy or rather medium-sized boy who is growing up much too quickly has been very brave lately, especially Tuesday. He’s been fighting something for months… aches, fevers, flu-like symptoms, general malaise.…
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Creation’s Groans
Our children pray every day for Haiti–numerous times a day. They are giving money from their Christmas and birthday stash to help with the relief effort. They ask me all the time how the recovery is going, how long it will take, who is taking care of the children without their mommies and daddies, etc.…
A Spring of Joy 