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How do we ever curb our appetites for just one more? When was the last time we said, “You know what? I have enough.” Do we ever believe that we have enough blog readers, book sales, friends in our corner, people in the pews, money in our offering plates? Today, Christin Ditchfield has invited us […]
Most people wouldn’t have bothered naming her. After all, she was not a person, or even a four-legged friend. She was a house – a gigantic, white-sided, black-shuttered hulk of a house with no cells or DNA or alveoli. Yet somehow? She had a heartbeat. They all knew that for sure. And, the way […]
very morning, the girls and I gather here to pray, with our fingers and souls tangled. God made the altar. We pray for “the food and the drinks and the wonderful day.” Anna always declares the days wonderful before they’ve even begun. Maybe this is a child’s way of declaring God’s goodness, even though […]
Someone asked me the other day if I knew how many people visit my blog a month. I told her I had no idea. I haven’t tracked blog stats for more than a year. I don’t say that out of a sense of spiritual superiority. In fact, I’m not all that proud of my decision […]
Two Empty Rooms is shoes remain noticeably absent. The once mounded pile of laundry in the middle of the floor is gone. All the books that lay scattered throughout his room and the house — his Bible, C.S. Lewis works, the one on Paine — now sit on his dorm-room shelf. No more contagious smile […]