When you make an ice cream sundae, what would happen if you start by putting the cherry on the bottom and then putting everything on top of the cherry? You would not have much of an ice cream sundae. That is the wrong base for an ice cream sundae. You need ice cream at the bottom and then you put all the other things on top. The same thing is true with your goals. You need to have the right…
I stood in the kitchen with a spoon in one hand and a container of pasta salad in the other. I was shoveling it in, not because I was hungry but because it was there. No, that was not weeks ago long before thinking deep about self-control. That was just the other day when I was in the middle of writing this. I had no self-control. The Fruit of the Spirit Paul is writing Galatians to believers who were adding…
Can you raise a special needs child overseas? What if the child has Down Syndrome? That was the exact question that we had to answer when our daughter was born. This was not the question, can we move overseas but rather can we remain living overseas. Now 14 years later our daughter has lived overseas longer than she has lived in her passport country. I can’t even say birth country because she was born overseas. When she was born…
Years ago I worked in international manufacturing. Once we had some suppliers from Asia visiting our office in the USA. My friend took some of them out shopping one evening. Edwin bought jeans for his wife. My friend asked him how he knew what size to buy. He said, “We wear the same size.” We got a good laugh out of that. Wondering who wears the jeans? Meaning who is in control. Who is in control of your life? Life…
September is back to school and back to routine. September is a month of anniversaries — our wedding anniversary and the anniversary of meeting our son. The days are beginning to get shorter, the air is crisp, and it is time to get out quilts to wrap up in the evenings. Miss K began a new school. She was excited. It was the school she wanted to go to. We were thankful that God worked out all the details. It…