Thankful – Part Three

After a week bound by worries, I have a few thoughts… (For details read Part One and especially Part Two.) Google searches are not helpful. Yes, Google knows everything. But it also makes you worry about everything. Related to this, we live in a world that offers access to huge amounts of information. The world has […]

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Thankful – Part Two

The office was nice. She was friendly. But she quickly began to talk about our baby’s potential genetic conditions. She asked what we had researched (Downs, heart defects, Spina bifida, others), then she began to talk about more possibilities beginning with Turner’s Syndrome. A week ago Megan called me at the church office. The morning […]

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Thankful – Part One

The announcement is supposed to be exciting. Happy. In the Fall we got balloons to surprise the girls. I wrote a sermon illustration. The church was in the middle of a series on creation – perfect timing, since we were living out “be fruitful and multiply”… until we weren’t. The same day we got the […]

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Thrifty?

At Serve Sunday I found my worship at the thrift store going through bags of clothes. From laugh worthy to a few take home temptations, we discovered everything. Then we literally did find everything, as we tore open another bag and on the top was a pair of soiled underpants. Next the dirty diaper in […]

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Swinging for a Royal Crown

Phoebe: “I like everything in the world, except for giants.” Meg: “Well you do not have to worry about giants, they are not real.” Phoebe: “I mean the Giants that beat the Royals.” One swing. Game 7 of the World Series. 9th Inning. Down by one. Runner on third. This was the moment of children’s […]

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