The Gift of Being Present
You’ve seen it many times—a room full of people, heads down, silent, looking at their screens. It happens in conference rooms, classrooms, family rooms, and even in church buildings. Our bodies are present, but our minds are somewhere else. This phenomenon...
The Best Distraction Story Ever
A favorite bedtime book series I read to our kids when they were little began with “If You Give A Mouse a Cookie.” The series continues with subsequent titles revolving around giving a pig a party, a cat a cupcake, a moose a muffin, a dog a donut, and so on. In...
Christmas Joy
Christmas is a wonderful time of hope and joy, reflecting on Christ’s birth and salvation coming into the world. We even sing “Joy to the World”…yet I can’t help but wonder about Mary, His mother. We read her story in Luke 1. She was a young girl of...
The Season of -ING
It’s the season of –ING. ShoppING CookING BakING PlannING WrappING InvitING OrderING CleanING TravelING DonatING HostING SocializING Whew! An exhausting list of verbs. I once heard someone say, “This year, I’m not going to let things that mean...
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