The Jingle Bell-Boy

Recently, we bought a bunk bed. Son #2, previously confined to a crib, has gone hog wild with his newly found freedom. Any time he needed a bite to eat or a drink in the middle of the night, he would call for us, which wasn’t very often. Hardly ever, actually. There must be somethingContinue reading “The Jingle Bell-Boy”

The Action of Thankfulness

If I know anything, it’s this: compared to a lot of people, I am not wealthy in terms of legal tender. I’m not a pauper, but I am not a prince, either. I don’t spend a vast amount of time on comparative thinking. But it doesn’t require much thinking to realize my locality on theContinue reading “The Action of Thankfulness”

The Walnut Harvest

Recently, Son #1, Son #2, and I picked up black walnuts. We filled up a five-gallon bucket in no time at all. Then we got a plastic kids’ pool and filled it up a quarter of the way. And there were still black walnuts all over the ground and falling from the tree. We hadContinue reading “The Walnut Harvest”

The Gift of Selflessness

I’m on my way to Mexico today. It’s the first trip of many, Lord willing. When I was a child, way back in the 1900s, 1996 specifically, my parents took me and my brother on our first mission trip to Mexico. We loved it. We kept wanting to go back. I’ve never been to aContinue reading “The Gift of Selflessness”