This has been a contemplative time for me as a parent. Dealing with my own daughter’s death and thinking through her life, God has brought to mind many of my parenting interactions — the good, the bad, and the ugly. There are many of those thoughts where I got it right in my parenting interactions, yet there […]
Over the years it has been interesting to interact with parents who have kids that are just moving into the middle school years. I see many confident in their parenting. Whatever they have been doing so far seems to be working and they feel like they will glide through the junior high and high school […]
Gently taking the bottom off the two-liter, it was easy to explain God to my then six year old son. With anticipation and a little sadness, we released his butterfly into our flower garden hoping it would stay close at least for a few days. Matt had watched this creature grow and mature through each stage of metamorphosis with the expectation of […]