Love Day #7: The Great Exchange
THE JOURNEY When I was twelve, my father took me on my first backpacking trip. I was determined to prove I was a man. I packed my frame pack with […]
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Love Day #6: The Bent Ear
THE JOURNEY I remember a specific Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago. Our house was packed with twenty-five relatives. The room was a cacophony of shouting over football games, clattering […]
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Love Day #5: The Face in the Crowd
THE JOURNEY My daughter, Lily, was the narrator for her first-grade class play. It was a production of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” and to say it was chaotic would be […]
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Love Day #4: The Fortress of Feathers
THE JOURNEY We were camping in the Smoky Mountains when the storm broke. It wasn’t a gentle summer rain; it was a violent, earth-shaking thunderstorm. The sky turned a bruised […]
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Love Day #3: The Open Secret
“Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them […]
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Love Day #2: The Two-Way Street
THE JOURNEY For years, my relationship with my teenage daughter, Mia, was like living with a friendly ghost. She lived in my house, ate my food, and occasionally nodded at […]
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Love Day #1: The First Move
THE JOURNEY For the first six months after we adopted him, our seven-year-old son, Marcus, lived like a tenant on a short-term lease. He kept his backpack packed in the […]
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Grace Day #31: The Overflow
“Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” — John 7:38 (NIV) The Journey My garage was a monument to my […]
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Grace Day #30: The Holy Ordinary
“And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” — Colossians 3:17 […]
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Grace Day #29: The Restored Field
“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten… You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the Lord […]