Our firstborn is graduating High School in a week.
My mom and my wife, my in-laws and my college twin nieces are all going to lose it.
I will stay strong… (not)
Inside, I will be a pile of mush… Jessica is my eighteen year old graduating from a time-honored institution of learning known as High School…she cruised through it. Graduating with straight A’s, NHS Honors, scholarships and awards, I’m really proud of her. REALLY PROUD. But not just because of what’s she’s accomplished or that she’s smart.
I’m proud because of who she has become! Jessica is a strong, hard-working and resourceful young woman. Her head sits mostly straight on [...] Read More
Parenting sometimes overwhelms me. So much stuff is changing, life evolving within and without all the time…kids become pre-teens, teens start to drive… teens who drive start to date… It’s enough to wig you out if you’re not careful. It’s enough to cause you to feel so inadequate you might be tempted to throw your hands up and just let life happen… “what will be…will be”!
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But, after a good nights sleep and refreshment in the scriptures, a bit of commuter-time prayer and suddenly the clouds part and I can start to see blue sky peeking through. I’m reminded of the truth in all [...] Read More
I’m at home…anxiously watching my three kids verbally chew into each other without a moments hesitation…simple conversations becoming complex multi-faceted examples of modern pschological warfare, right in my kitchen! No blood spatters yet, but the wounds are deep and just as painful as if they had been inflicted with a fully automated m-16 and some grenades!
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Enough raw carnage to make a parent sick… where do they learn to battle and wound each other like that?
Who teaches our kids to attack first and ask questions later? I mean who models this kind of verbal warfare, who makes it seem like a good idea [...] Read More
Had a great service yesterday…celebrating mom’s and handing out beautiful roses, remembering how special each mother was and is at church, then everyone piles into cars to chase a superfat lunch
Later we exchange lots of sweet and thoughtful gifts and cards, saying something like “Mom, you’re so amazing, so special, I Love you” etc.. it’s traditional to take a day to remember all that mom’s mean and are and do for us…a wonderful day, one to cherish and observe…
But what about the next day? When a gray and rainy morning arrives and the reality check occurs; you’ve awakened to Mothers day + 1 ! Looking for a [...] Read More
All Men Die; Few Men Ever Really LIVE
“The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live. Sure, you can create a safe life for yourself . . . and end your days in a rest home babbling on about some forgotten misfortune. I’d rather go down swinging. Besides, the less we are trying to “save ourselves,” the more effective a warrior we will be. Listen to G. K. Chesterton on courage:
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire [...] Read More
SO I’m having lunch with a group of long time Christian radio industry dudes, at a questionably healthy mexican joint named “Nacho’s” in Franklin TN. These men will need to remain anonymous as it’s not within the general policy of the universal ”man-code” to nark on your bro’s to the women…. but here goes.
Note the migration of the buttocks to the belly button
All of us are well over thirty… how much so will remain a mystery. All of us have varying degrees of manly decline, some of us are softer than others, rounder than others and generally less than we may have once been [...] Read More
Oh the rush of a serious infatuation, sigh… the full-blown magnificent high that seems to only exist in the early days of another instant attraction ! That “one in a million“ personal connection to someone else! Remember how intense your emotional high was? How deeply it moved into your heart, re-wiring your mind and… well, maybe caused you to go crazy for a while?
Some of us may have pushed caution to the side and rushed headlong into that sensational blast of instant attraction many times in our past, or possibly right now! We are tempted to jump with abandon off the cliffs of reason to chase wildly after a whirlwind courtship that ended [...] Read More
By KATHERINE ROSMAN (WSJ article- repost)
Celina McPhail’s mom wouldn’t let her have a Facebook account. The 12-year-old is on Instagram instead.
Her mother, Maria McPhail, agreed to let her download the app onto her iPod Touch, because she thought she was fostering an interest in photography. But Ms. McPhail, of Austin, Texas, has learned that Celina and her friends mostly use the service to post and “like” Photoshopped photo-jokes and text messages they create on another free app called Versagram. When kids can’t get on Facebook, “they’re good at finding ways around that,” she says.
Parents checking Facebook are seeing only the [...] Read More
Loved this blog so much I’m just reposting a portion of it for RTP and linking it to the original author/post….
“Why childlike imagination is the key to mature faith”…. (repost from Relevant.com and “Don’t Grow Up” article author John Van Sloten – May 2 2012 )
“I have a friend named Lillian. Even though sheʼs in her seventies, sheʼs younger than me. She is so alive and she always seems to be laughing out loud. Every time I talk with her, sheʼs brightly attentive and exudes this wonderfully genuine sense of joie de vivre. She refuses to act her age. When I [...] Read More
Prom was last saturday evening …
Bethany Rose (my 17-year-old) was buzzing, flittering around the house all day saturday… feet just a few inches off the ground. Her dress had been meticulously picked, hair and makeup tastefully prepared and her dazzling rhinestone high-heel sandals carefully ordered. No detail had been overlooked. Prom was here and Bethany was coming alive. Her plans included a dress up dinner with several couples and then a visit to the TPAC (Tennessee Performing Arts Center) to see a CS Lewis play with her date. They both chose to skip the parties and the dances and the strobe lights [...] Read More
