This is my kitchen right now. Yours is probably in worse shape because all this got me was three pies in the oven — a tiny fraction of the day’s feast. Mostly Thanksgiving is messes. There is about 15 minutes of Glorious Wow, but the rest of it is making messes and cleaning up messes. … Continue reading
You know what’s fun? I mean wild, exhilarating fun? Loving without expectations. It’s like Christmas when you were a kid: everything you receive is an unexpected delight. It’s the best kind of happy, the kind that makes you dance or at least laugh from someplace deep down, the kind where people accuse you of being on something. … Continue reading
Love is a pansy, that is what I thought. It is tu-tus and butterflies and nice flowers — but not garden roses, because those have thorns. Love is being nice. Love is doing what other people want you to do. Love is for wimps who don’t have the guts to do anything important. And Jesus wants us to love. … Continue reading
Obedience and availability are the same thing. Availability means we’ve brought out heart to the party, which is all God was ever after in the first place. —– I was half way onto this concept yesterday morning, when I was reading about the calling of the first disciples. God so does not even care about … Continue reading
My high school journalism teacher is like family — having spent as much time with me and my siblings as he did (we were all newspaper editors), he certainly qualifies. There was a lot that I didn’t learn from him — like what passive voice is and how not to use it — but here’s … Continue reading
All the stories — the good ones, anyway — tell us that love is something you have to fight for. Falling in love, finding yourself in love, anyone can do that. But love always brings us to that point when it seems like it’s over. It can’t be done. I already tried. I’m going to … Continue reading
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