My four year old is an endless fountain of questions. The other day she asked me why it is summer. I was stumped. (Seriously, what would YOU have said?!) So I gave my stock answer, “Because it is.” She was satisfied not because that was a stellar...
I’m pretty good at rationalizing things.Take donuts, for example. Why do I get two donuts when my four year old can only have one? Because I have a bigger stomach, of course. Never mind that they are completely devoid of any nutritional...
There was nothing I hated more in school than the dreaded group project. There are two types of people in this world: those who carry the group and those who expect the group to carry them. I always fell into the first class of students, and...
God is pretty tricky. He lures us into wanting to have kids by making newborns adorably snuggley. Their heads smell good, and their outfits are so cute we can’t stand it. LexiAllieThen they start to grow. They learn to talk and think and...
I have some friends that are very ordinary. But they did an extraordinary thing. They responded to God’s leading them in a direction they never would have walked in under “normal” circumstances. He told them to leave Memphis, move...
There is a downside to the fact that God wants what is best for us: He is willing to do whatever it takes to get us to cooperate with His plan. If you subscribe to the concept of free will, then God is never going to force us to do anything. But He will...
