Today I googled pictures of Hygge. Never one to be on time for a trend, this Christmas I deemed our house hygge central, with candles and blankets and herbal teas and wooly socks everywhere. It could also be called The Sick House, for our home has been that, too.
Read moreViolence, Silence and Advent
In my Bible college days, we used to act out important events highlighted in Scripture. It sounds hokey, but it worked wonders for memorization. We’d march through the Red Sea and count the Twelve Spies, separate Judah from Israel, and...
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I had some big plans. Well, maybe not big plans, but other plans. I thought about re-examining the Peace Experiment of 2013, or acquiescing to peer pressure and venturing into Voskamp territoy with The Greatest Gift, or even just getting up a few minutes earlier...
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I have a little helper sitting next to me. It's the big kids' homework time, so he and I are doing our "work" upstairs on his bed, pressed up against his window, a gray sky our backdrop. He's tracing lines on the LeapPad, working on his writing, practicing how to hold a pen.
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