A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
Valentine’s Day is this week so these quotes and messages stood out to me in regard to marriage:
Dreams grow best in an atmosphere of love.
Don’t fight to win, fight to understand.
Train your eye to see beauty in each other’s average moments…
Yesterday morning I laid Aron’s clothes out for him in the living room. He was still eating breakfast in the kitchen and we were running late so instead of making him run upstairs to find clothes I decided to bring them down and help him dress once he…
We do more harm in letting little things go undisciplined and then allowing them to build up to anger inducing punishment, than we do in correcting the little things before they become actions that cause undue chastisement.
18 (A)Discipline your son while there is hope,
And do not desire [a]his death.
Footnotes:
Proverbs 19:18 Lit. causing him to die
Proverbs 19:18
King James Version (KJV)
18 Chasten thy son…
I’ve been listening to a sermon from last weekend about order.
It’s a revelation to me.
I’ve always believed that God is a God of order. This sermon laid it out in front of me in perfect timing. I was struggling. Struggling to believe I could…
I don’t like failing, and maybe that’s a harsh word for it, but I definitely blew it this morning.
I had this conversation with Ivan after many attempts at helping him with his Bible quiz today. “Ivan, do you know your Bible verse?”
“I think so.”…
It snowed when we were saying I do. The surprising white of early winter blanketed the bare of late fall.
And we barely noticed then, but think back fondly now. Of how I prayed that there would be no rain on my wedding day.
Gripping string I watched his hands wind and pull, sensitive to wind hundreds of feet above his reach.
I had told him how to hang on. How to hold tight but give when needed. When there’s too much slack, we pull the string and step backward until…
Ivan has outgrown so many things. He gets bigger, bolder, more clever and more independent every day. There are a few things though that we are consistently working on. One of them is using words instead of whines.
He is dramatic.
Over the top…
After a recent discussion on facebook regarding gateway words I felt this would be a good edit and repost from a post I published in 2009.
Yesterday on the way home from school Owen was surprised at something we were talking about and responded wit…
Dear Holy Spirit,
I beg your intervention.
I see the flaws so glaring after. Like a glowing ember from a fire put out. Clearly smoldering, smoking, and the stench is much stronger than the kindling it began with.
Selfishness is abandonment of…