Grace & oranges

The fruit of grace is like the lovely and abundant oranges produced from a tiny orange seed, planted, nourished and watered by the Creator. The fruit of good works is like the lovely but limited oranges I picked elsewhere and tied to the branches of a tree which is not orange at all. Analogy courtesy [...]

A fine mothering moment

So the last several weeks the last year, the baby has been waking up between 2 and 5 times a night.  And when I’m aroused from R.E.M. sleep multiple times per night for several nights in a row, I’m a bit…groggy.  Go figure. So the other night he woke up crying a.gain. and I thought [...]

Divorce

I’ve been thinking about divorce lately after hearing how it’s touching the lives of some friends. Very often we look at is as a solution to a problem between two people. But it’s so much more than that. It’s like a relay race and every time divorce occurs, it’s as if the baton is being [...]

Fireproof the movie

I highly recommend it.  Married or not.  Great message.  And no crap.  I can’t remember the last time I went to a movie in which there was no crap.  In fact, there was one kiss where the main character (played by Kirk Cameron) kisses his wife (played by Erin Bethea), but Kirk Cameron has “long [...]

Grief is a path, not a destination

I’ve been studying the Sermon on the Mount and I’ve been camping out in the Beatitudes.  I’ve never really studied them in depth, just read over them as though they were an introduction to what Christ really wanted to say.  Boy was I wrong.  I’m beginning to see how they encapsulate the whole message. Anyway, [...]

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