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  • It's comforting, when working with five children under eight becomes intensely frustrating and horrendously uninspiring, to remind yourself, "This is a God-given opportunity to make wisdom practical! Knowledge should mak…

  • Two excellent sermons today. As usual. Pastor Withington preached this morning on James 3:13-18. It's the passage that contrasts natural and heavenly wisdom. "The wisdom which is from above is first pure, peacable, gent…

  • What an orphaned feeling it gives you to have to break into your own house when your family is AT HOME. Kent, Kyle, Kerr, and I went to the Y this morning to play racquetball. I didn't have my house key, and when we got …

  • One of the books I was given for graduation was John Piper's A Godward Life, a collection of 120 daily readings. It was my first introduction to Dr. Piper's writings; as much as I've heard about him, I've never read him …

  • The midnight MSN colloquy continued a few more minutes later Gomer Pyle says: Shige (i.e. Hasegawa) has had two total career errorsGomer Pyle says: both were when he was on aneeheeemKaroline says: *registers horror*Kar…

  • It was 4-1 Marlins against Braves, and I'd written off the game when, in the bottom of the 9th, Julio Franco tripled, Robert Fick doubled, and brought the game to 4-4. These Braves are unquenchable. They went through the…

  • I rejoice in our brother being with Christ, which is far better, but at the same time, everything in me clamors that death isn't right! it's not natural. There's something essentially painful and horrible about it. Don't…

  • Lawrence "Larry" Andrew StavishBorn Tuesday, December 23, 1952Died Thursday, July 17, 2003 This is the first time in my life that a Christian I knew, a Christian close to me, went Home. The house of mourning is indeed a…

  • I "There is no God" the foolish saith,But none "There is no sorrow,"And nature oft the cry of faithIn bitter need will borrow:Eyes, which the preacher could not school,By wayside graves are raised,And lips say "God be p…

  • Earth's crammed with heavenAnd every common bush afire with God;But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • gotta love 'em "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now as I reveal how my gloomy temperament received its...warp from early and prolonged exposure to the Chicago Cubs....I plighted my troth [young] to a baseball te…

  • If it's been awhile since you've read G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, go read it. Talk about a clean sea breeze. He's awfully refreshing. Speaking of which, in re my post a moment ago, physical exertion and varied activity…

  • It's something readers need to do. Go rub their nose in real things, outdoor things, that they can touch, taste and feel. Or get scratched by, hit by, jarred by, suffocated by, or any other of those passives you can thin…

  • You know how things you hear or see become hysterically funny for no reason at all? There are two things right now that send me into stitches every time I try to think about them with a straight face. One is "Watching te…

  • WHAT a game lastnight! I don't think I breathed the whole time! It was stunning to watch star after star after star come up to bat. Incredible, but a bit too much, if you know what I mean. I follow the Braves pretty clos…

  • Today was my last piano lesson ever at the Conservatory. It's been a part of my life since I was eleven. I owe everything I am as a musician to the Conservatory, its teachers, and the inspiration of its finest students…

  • Life is good. I'm on vacation from work (I'm a nanny) and so far this week I've gone shooting, played racquetball twice, gone swimming, running, spent time in the scintillating company of P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton,…

  • Why do you need a new blog? you demand. Well, Mr. Bulstrode in George Eliot's Middlemarch discovered that" one can begin so many things with a new person!-- even begin to be a better man." On the same principle, one can …

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