If we can get to the point where we no longer need to pretend like we have it together, then we can ask for help before things get to a "code red" crisis. No one I know has this thing all figured out.
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Every chance Nathan (our six year old) gets to ask someone if they know Jesus, he does it. It doesn’t matter if it’s his piano teacher, the neighbor selling lemonade at the garage sale or the stylist at Great Clips. This has challenged me in many ways as a parent...
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Parenting is hard. At dinner this week I kept starting to talk and then got interrupted every time by my three year old saying something crazy or making a loud noise. And I’m not the type of person that just talks over people so I kept starting and stopping. In defeat I just put my head down on the table.
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What would you do if you had just a few moments left with someone you loved? Jesus knows his time has come to depart from this world. His death is just over the horizon and the way he’ll die has to constantly be in the forefront of his mind. But what does he do with his last moments with his disciples?
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Peter tells husbands to understand, honor, and protect their wives, “So that your prayers may not be hindered” (1 Peter 3:7). Somehow, there is a connection between the health of our marriages and the health of our prayers.
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The other day I took Nathan to his tee ball practice. It was just us together in the car. We weren’t able to sign up for a team near our house so it’s a little bit of a drive to get to the practice field. Usually on a drive like this I would just throw on the radio or maybe one of my favorite podcast..
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