Familiarity breeds contempt. Spend more time with someone and you'll get jaded. You'll take things for granted, and get angry over smaller things. Hot buttons will emerge. They'll be easier to punch as time goes on. This is probably why marriage can be so hard. It's easier to forgive the waitress who screwed up your food order than it is the wife who forgot to put the cap back on the toothpaste ... again. Grace doesn't dwell well in a world of presumed outcomes. We force grace out of … [Read more...]
‘Twas the Day Before Christmas
December 24, 2011 by
This one is different. Times have changed, so have we. There's no tree. No garland. No decoration. No lights. Instead we have two babies who have overflowed our lives. We have joy. We have frustration. We have laughter. We have tears. Times we want to run away to Canada. And times we're drawn nearer. We've been challenged. We've been tested. Plenty of times we have failed. Time and again, love, faith and hope prevails. It's overwhelming. It's daunting. It's made me … [Read more...]
