Like a lot of people, we have our family traditions for Christmas. On Christmas Eve we make homemade pizzas, watch a Christmas movie, then get the kids ready for bed. For Christmas dinner, we order Chinese take out and eat with our fine China (the only time all year). Our girls love drinking “kids wine”…
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Our God is Too Small
My wife shared this video with me. It’s a part of Matthew Kelly’s Advent video series. Watch: “A God of Miracles” by Matthew Kelly From the transcript: Our image of God is too small. We shrink God so we can try and get our heads around it. We live in a culture that wants to…
How I Tripled the Number of Books I Read in 2017
I distinctly remember a realization in first grade that the “blue group” was code for poor readers. I was in the blue group. I never got over my shame at being a slow reader. Still to this day I get self-conscious about reading in front of people–even as a teacher reading to a class, a…
Schedule Your Day Like a Student
I have this recurring nightmare about being in college again. It’s the end of the semester and the end of my four years in school. I’m ready to graduate only it turns out I have failed multiple classes. How could this happen? What did I do wrong? In the dream, I show up to my…
How do you define success?
It is that time of year again–that time when we sit down and set goals for the new year. We look back upon the year we are finishing as we look ahead to the year we are about to start. I have to admit that I’ve had a tough time these last few weeks defining…
