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The girls’ bedrooms are dark now, and it’s hard saying whether they’ve actually fallen asleep. They are jittery with excitement. Tomorrow’s the first day of school here. Just now, their overstuffed backpacks are leaning against the back door, and I marvel at the fact that a 70-pound child can pack-mule a bag like that down […]
It was a cheap $32 ring. Not my wedding band, or my grandmother’s diamond, or some sparkling honker of a gem from Tiffany’s. It wasn’t anything worth anything to anyone. Except to me. It was just a ring. That’s what I tried to tell myself. Except that it was more. To me, the ring was an engraved promise, and it was […]
We’re far away from home, in northern Minnesota, celebrating my favorite farmer’s birthday. He turned 43 today. So I am posting this one, from the archives. Because we really believe this is true — God’s Got It. Life on planet Earth isn’t a a piece of cake. But sometimes, you’ve just got to eat the […]
So, I pull her aside in the lobby of a hotel in Arkansas. I want to know what she knows. I want to know what makes her spirit sparkle like that. I want to know how someone can always track joy across the carpet every time she walks into a room. (But never once makes […]
So there is this thing I have been waiting for. The “thing” isn’t as important as what we humans do while waiting for our “things” to happen. My thing is a thing I have been praying about — begging for really — like a red-faced toddler before a holy God. I may or may not have thrown […]