Live With Flair

My youngest and I examine a tree trunk by our home. Once, it stood tall over the neighborhood, but experts knew something wasn’t right. The

We see a hot air balloon rising just about the treetops as we’re driving to a friend’s house. “Let’s go find it,” my husband says.

This morning, the Dragon Boy falls down and scrapes his hands. He comes to me and presses his wounded palms against mine and closes his

Five years ago, a student of mine designed an ad campaign encouraging college freshman to stop drinking on weekends. He created a picture of a

I read Psalm 119:164: “Great peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.” A heart at peace? How does one

Every morning when I open wide the back doors to let the fresh morning air come through the screens, the chipmunks come and taunt our

In the spirit of quizzing, I decide to ask myself what I really learned this week. I’m picking raspberries, and I reflect on all I’ve

I read this morning a quote from Hannah Whitall Smith. She argues that “the soul who gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul

Students hate my reading quizzes. But after all this time and all these years of learning how to really serve students, I stand behind the

This morning, I read some beautiful words in Paul Miller’s A Praying Life. He says that when you “stop trying to control your life and