Last night the Supreme Court refused to block Texas’s abortion bill (USAToday). This is not the court’s final ruling — the decision was on minutia — still the law will go into effect while legal challenges proceed. As my newsfeed fills up, my personal opinion is in support of “heartbeat laws”. It makes logical sense, […]
Read more "Another Way"“Where’s my mask?!!” — Ezekiel in carline. Meg is working full-time. So I am in charge of the morning routine. Opening the curtains, dragging kids out of bed. Begging them to eat. Grabbing their lunch… “Phoebe took my lunch!” exclaimed Darcy. P was long gone to middle school. So I first told D to eat […]
Read more "Marks of Kindness"The girls are preparing for piano recitals. And Phoebe is constantly playing a song from the musical Dear Evan Hansen, “Cause I’m tap, tap, tapping on the glass / I’m waving through a window.” I told her it sounds a little creepy, who is looking in my window?! But dad jokes aside, the song reveals […]
Read more "Light of Hospitality"“The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.” – 2Peter 3:10 This week’s UN Climate Report gave dire predictions.1 It outlines a path where it is not God who destroys the world with fire, but – as we […]
Read more "Firehose"“Unlike him, [the dog] retained a kind of hope. Hope is an instinct only the reasoning human mind can kill.” — The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene On Sunday Chandler’s food pantry ran out of milk. Which happens some weeks, but a regular family with a new baby arrived. So I hurried to […]
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