Every Wednesday I disconnect from the interwebs, turn off the cell phone and spend the day with my kids. They call it Daddy Day. But it’s nothing elaborate.
We do homework together (the easy subjects), stock the shelves for a while at the local food pantry, go out for lunch or on some kind of field… 
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Monstermarks – Kid Craft Tutorial
Celebrating Lent As A Family: 40 Days Of Preparation
Forty days and nights of rain beating down on that noisy smelly ark.
Forty years wandering in the wilderness between slavery in Egypt and freedom in the Promised Land.
Forty days Moses spent on the mountain with God.
The spies inspected the new land for forty days before bringing out fruit and a mixed report.…
How To Make A Christmas List
“Can you help me make my Christmas list?” he asks. He’s asked a few times now.
I remind him again that it’s not his birthday and that…he interrupts.
“I know.” He’s angry. I lecture instead of listen.
“No, you don’t know. I want you to sit down at the table right now -”
“Dad,” he says.
“No,” I say, “I…
How To Practice
School work is done. The kitchen is clean. Clothes are hung up. And now the hardest part of Wednesday comes.
She fans her fingers over the worn keys of her great great aunt’s piano and looks down, ignoring the lines and dots on the page. And she plays beautifully.
She ends with an arpeggio of her own…
Formed For Flight
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. -Genesis 2:7
“Richard.”
He’s stirred from his nine year-old boy daydream, eyes wide and fixed on mine.
“Richard, when you are a man…”
He nods along but drifts off again as if…
Jey’s Story With A Side Of Barbecue
A man in the front row lowered his hotdog to his lap. A woman placed her index finger over her pursed lips to shhh her chatty teenagers. For ten minutes Jey had the attention of 4,000 people.
And all it took was one story.
“Texas,” I said, “welcome to the stage, all the way from Nairobi, my…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a husband, father, singer and communicator connecting the first world with the third world for the benefit of both.
