Live With Flair

Today I cut up all the vegetables and begin making those after school snack platters. They do, in fact, eat what I put out.If it’s

A million tiny moments make up a marriage. Today we both worked mostly from home, and by 2:00 PM had neglected to eat lunch. “I

When somebody starts gossiping, change the subject.When somebody starts in with all the negativity, change the subject.When somebody starts speaking offensively or crudely, change the

I’ve always been fascinated and inspired by the account in Joshua 4 when Joshua tells the twelve Israelites–one from each tribe–to take a stone from

I once calculated that I’ll have made over 7,000 dinners by the time the first one leaves for college.  Dinner is a big deal around

My daughter bikes around the neighborhood while I walk far behind. I’m looking for new bird nests. Together, we’ve found old ones from last year

My eyes land on Daniel 5:23 where Daniel describes the Lord as the “God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.”

Sometimes I forget to ask God for hope. I can’t produce hope on my own. It’s supernatural. I ask, and God answers. It never originates

I’m about to discard hundreds of old CDs, but then I decide to see what folks do with all of them. I’ve found “Shattered Art,”

For those of us who overthink everything, who ruminate, who infuse everything with meaning–even toenails or pencils or acorns–and who insist on diagnosing and fully