Sam stayed up late completing his online bankruptcy certification course and now finds writing in third person easier to tolerate.
You see, Sam’s entire family has urged him to take this step while many friends tried to advise him against it.
The debts weren’t so egregious, friends said.
You can get through this and repair your credit some [...]
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Super Kung Fu Tiger Girl pounced into the room and asked what I was doing.
“Struggling,” I replied.
“I promised to write something for someone. I missed the deadline and can’t write it,” I told her. “Maybe you can help.”
“What do you think life is like?” I asked my 7-year-old daughter.
“Life is hard,” she said, then quickly [...]
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I wanted to participate in Middle-Aged Musing’s “Life is like…” project thinking the deadline was Aug. 14.
It was Aug. 11.
So anyway – in my view “Life is like a river.”
Yep – there you go. Humongous unoriginal metaphor.
I would throw in that currently I’m navigating Class IV rapids on said metaphorical river.
See, I even changed the [...]
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Just some quick happy thoughts about family.
My son had fun picking blackberries with his cousin shown below. They picked the berries Aug. 2 at a festival near Lucketts, Va.
And my daughter examined a spider in its web here. She likes to study nature at Ida Lee Park near Leesburg, Va.
God created such wonders. Find them [...]
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My wife and I had always supported the idea of adoption, and as Christians, we understood the importance of loving and caring for others. But what I had not yet grasped was that adoption is a physical picture of what Jesus has done for me. I did nothing to deserve God’s love; in fact, I [...]
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Please pray for the lady who wrote John Shore in such a moving post here:
http://johnshoreland.com/2008/08/04/a-woman-cries-out-for-our-love/ .
Even before that post appeared a poem had been forming in my head starting as…
“Sins of fathers and mothers
passed down to hurt others…”
I had in mind my own offspring and striving to meet their needs as well as a couple [...]
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