If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9 “What does ‘Lord’ mean?” she asked. “Boss, king, master. When you become a Christian you’re saying you want Jesus to be the king… Read More
Archive Tag: kids
When The Ride Is Rough. Wee.
The small prop plane rises from the runway in Salt Lake City. Rain falls. Charcoal clouds churn. The plane pitches left to right. A business woman in heels and pearls grips her armrest across the aisle from me; her knuckles yellow, then whiten. The plane dives suddenly, sending my stomach… Read More
Curing The Fatherless Epidemic
Daisy breaks a large cinnamon stick into shards and places a few at a time in small plastic bags. Her daughter sits close, learns the trade. Daisy is a street vendor taking care of two kids by selling spices to passersby. She lives in a one-window concrete box the size… Read More
Can’t
The people who say you can’t… quit trying long ago… or never tried at all. You may not succeed in the end. But they failed to start. (The most important words are the ones I write to myself.) View Post
Monstermarks – Kid Craft Tutorial
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… Read More
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… Read More