Family Life

Tonight’s youth group was small. We had six leaders and three youth. The evening’s speaker had wondered about canceling altogether. But no, we went ahead anyway. Many or few, we bring God’s Word to those who are willing to listen. A small group is always a concern though. Usually you need a certain critical mass, [...]

Things at home are slowly returning to normal. Debbie and the boys are recovering from their illness and everybody feels a whole lot better. Everybody except me: I promptly caught the family cold as soon as I got back. I started getting the first tingles a couple of days ago, and by now those twitches [...]

We had snow overnight, and it was a beautiful day. The boys went out to play, all bundled up in their snow suits. Not me. I was at work, thank goodness, safely tucked away in my nice warm, dry office. I’m not terribly fond of the outdoors, particularly when it’s cold. Tonight I went out [...]

We decorated cookies with the church young people. It’s always fun to see the results; the process is also quite entertaining. There are bags of icing sugar in different colors (“frosting” for you Americans), and little bowls of decorations. In the jovial, festive atmosphere it doesn’t take much to go from decorating cookies to decorating [...]

Today was just as much hard work as yesterday, the day before, the whole week. Tonight we rushed through dinner, got the boys ready to go out and went to Youth Group. Debbie and I didn’t have a lot of responsibilities–show up, interact with the young people, lead the singing, and go home. Others were [...]