Family Life

Everybody is sick with a cold at the moment. Debbie has managed to shrug off most of the effects, Daniel was the first to get it and is mostly over it, and Micah (7mo) and Joel (2) have been hit the hardest. Plus Micah is cutting his second tooth, so he’s the unhappiest of all.
Debbie [...]

Last night we took the church’s youth group to a warehouse to pack Christmas shoe boxes. This was for Operation Christmas Child, a program run by Samaritan’s Purse to distribute gift boxes to children in third-world countries. The idea is that you take an empty shoe box and fill it with gift items for a [...]

Everything is gearing up for Christmas. The shops have their decorations out, the sales are on, crowds throng to the malls. You can get a picture of your child sitting on Santa’s lap! A week ago was the Santa parade, the sidewalks packed with children and their parents. And it’s not even December.
Daniel has certainly [...]

Joel was so tired he fell asleep sitting up at the dining table, with his head on his placemat. He fell asleep while waiting for the rest of us to sit down for dinner. I fed Daniel his dinner and ate mine while Joel slumbered away. Eventually I picked him up, changed him into his [...]

Concerned as I am about giving a right spiritual response to day-to-day difficulties, what really occupies my thoughts is fear of failure. Failure to meet deadlines. Failure to do a good job, to make a mistake, to look stupid. Failure to win at office politics and become an outcast. Failure to properly parent my children [...]