Luke 18:16-17 But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Children… Read More
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“Why Do We Do Halloween?”
He stands with his chin on the kitchen counter watching a face slowly appear on a pumpkin. “Why do we do Halloween?” he asks. So many ways to answer. I need to buy time. “Why do you think we do Halloween?” He closes one eye, aims the other one at… Read More
One Hundred Snow Cones Later
It’s slow work but worth the wait. His speckled hand pulls the lever. Tiny shards spray from a frozen brick and gradually fill a styrofoam cup. Mr. A turns toward the open window and shouts in a New Orleans drawl, “What flava’d you say you wan agin?” He squints, cups… Read More
Choosing The Question We’ll Ask Today
The three year-olds sat in a circle wearing their Easter Sunday bests. One by one they opened their egg, pulled out a surprise, showed it proudly to the rest of the class and listened as Mrs. Becky told a little more of the morning’s story. “Touch the thorn,” she instructed, “but be very… Read More
Teaching Children Generosity
When we started homeschooling many years ago, I was given Wednesdays to teach them whatever I wanted. So we do art together, practice piano, and walk through a survey of the bible. And then head to the food pantry. Because – like art, music and theology – generosity has to… Read More
Unimpressive Miss Jones
The first thing that struck me when I came to live in a house with mentally handicapped people was that their liking or disliking me had absolutely nothing to do with any of the many useful things I had done until then. Since nobody could read books, they could not impress anyone, and since most of them never went to school, my twenty years at Notre Dame, Yale and Harvard did not provide a significant introduction. View Post