I’m not having an easy time. Who is, though? But without forgetting that life is tough for everyone, I’ll reiterate that I’m not having an easy time. I’m dealing with some health issues, took a pay cut at my job as a result of insurance cost increases, and a whole host of other things I […]
Tightrope
It’s the wind that you never fully consider. Perhaps it gets a mention–”And think of the wind!”–but I doesn’t get the attention it deserves from the outsiders. Not like the height. The focus is on the height. The death-defying, gravity-taunting, insane height above the earth. What those who safe on the ground don’t realize is […]
Why We Only Have One Child
“When are you going to have another child?” I hate that question, though I must confess that I have asked it of people before. I hate that question because my wife and I have been asked it countless times, and we have no answer, other than: “When God ends our suffering.”
The Better Father
I do really well with multi-tasking. So well, in fact, that I take on way too much, but even then, I manage until something goes. Something always goes wrong.
The House Upon the Rock: Listening is Doing (Redux)
I wrote the following words about five years ago, and they still hold true: listening is doing! The difference is that I think I’m in a place now to offer a few tips on how to make the transition from a passive hearing to an active listening.
Let it Be to Me: Salvation through Surrender
I was praying on Wednesday about a personal problem about which I feel very strongly, an issue that deeply affects my family. I was asking God to do something, to change something, to make my wife and I’s dream come true. And I thought of Mary.