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Continue reading →: Children Are People: Little, Whole People.I’ve had the privilege (yeah, let’s call it that) of flying with my daughter six times in the first two years of her life. That’s six trips, twelve flights, more than twenty-four hours on an airplane. She was three months old the first time. I held her the whole flight in…
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Continue reading →: Wait and Hope
Last week, I had the honor to write a guest post about God’s faithfulness on my friend Bobi Ann’s blog, bobiann.com. We first met when we were three years old in Mother’s Day Out together at First Baptist Church Kilgore, TX. We crossed paths again in college and seminary, then…
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Continue reading →: Are You Having Fun With Your Kids This Summer?This summer has been very unique for me. Fourteen of my last sixteen summers were spent, in some capacity, traveling and working summer camps. Those summers were memorable and life-changing, but they were also hard work and busy! This summer I had one goal and one goal only for all my “free…
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Continue reading →: What My One-Year-Old Taught Me About Fear
My sweet child is young and is still learning so many things about this great, big world. Just this week she learned that if food is hot to the touch, it will also burn her mouth, so she should put it back down and wait before eating. This was a…
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Continue reading →: The Doctrine of “For Now” and “Not Yet”
For you astute theologians out there, you may be thinking this is going to be about the Kingdom of God and how this Kingdom is both earthly and heavenly, expressed in the here and now through Christ’s followers and is also yet to come in the perfect culmination of all…
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Continue reading →: Leaving Old Bandages BehindYou may have never seen anything as equally sad and cute as a one year old in a sling. (And if you say those Sarah McLachlan commercials, I’ll have to ask you to stop reading.) How do small children not break bones more often? Ours falls approximately 37 times a…
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Continue reading →: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring, The Old Man is Snoring
Weird, obscure 20th century nursery rhymes anyone? The rest of that little rhyme, in case you’re unfamiliar is, “He went to bed and bumped his head and couldn’t get up in the morning.” I’m not quite sure what the moral lesson is that we want small children to learn from…
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Continue reading →: One Thing at a TimeI am often overwhelmed at the sheer volume of information that is available for us to take in on a daily basis, particularly via the Internet. Sometimes I scroll through my Facebook newsfeed of links, shared articles, blogs, and videos and I wonder how anyone ever effectively communicates anything anymore.…
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Continue reading →: All I Really Need to Know, I Learned at CampClick here to find out how to be a FUGE staffer and have a seriously life-changing experience this summer. Or pass that link along to a college student/young adult that you know. Interviews are going on now. I could list hundreds of things that I learned over the years. Here…
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Continue reading →: What You Do When You’re a Compulsive PerfectionistCompulsive: Someone who feels compelled to do certain things. Perfectionist: A person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards. Here are two things you need to know about me. One, I’m not crafty. Two, I’m so not crafty that I recently attempted a project that…
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