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The Beautiful Gift
And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths, and lying in a manger. Luke 2:12 With every walk into GCC’s new building, I pinch myself and whisper, “Can this be true? Is this spacious facility really our new church home?” I walk by the...
Hand Lotion Grace – Recycled
Between the holiday hubbub and writing the first draft of Different Dream Parenting, time continually runs short. So I’ll be implementing some conservation efforts for however long it takes to complete the first draft - hopefully only a month or two. First, I’m...
Dependent
One of my high school English teachers was big on vocabulary. Even in his composition class for college bound seniors, all of us full of ourselves and sure we had the world by the tail, he pinned five new words on the board every day, Monday through Thursday. On...
Stir Fried Kale
Lately, Hiram and I have been enjoying free veggies, one of the perks of being parents of an organic farmer. First, our new daughter stir fried kale, one of the main crops produced on the farm where Allen works, during a recent visit to their house. Once they saw I...
The Teddy Bear
Tuesday, while crowing about the cover art for Different Dream Parenting, I hinted about the significance of the teddy bear in the corner. Today’s entry explains that significance. This story was written shortly after receiving the cover art for my first book, A...
A Little Shellacking Goes a Long Way
shellacking: present participle of shel·lac (Verb) 1. Varnish (something) with shellac. 2. Defeat or beat (someone) decisively: "they were shellacked in the election". First, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he’s reviving dead language. Our president is...