April 2017
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finding your eden: why creativity matters
Boys and girls come out to play! The moon is shining as bright as day! Leave your supper and leave your sleep, and join your playfellows in the street! When my kids were little, we had one of those CDs of Mother Goose songs that was played every day during every car ride. You’d drop the kids…
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my kids told me not to write about toilets, but i did it anyway
On Monday, I wrote a Facebook post about the after-Easter-weekend slump. I wanted to remind people that after a high-energy time, it’s normal for creativity and motivation to be low, and that’s OK. The fact that today I’m writing about toilets, much to the chagrin of my brainstorming partners (a.k.a. my kids), pretty well proves I’m right there…
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forgive and forget – what does it really mean?
As we head into Easter, I’ve invited my friend Cayli Pankratz to share her thoughts on forgiveness. I got to know Cayli when she and her husband Stephen began leading a home-based Bible-study group through our church. I’ve always been impressed that she encourages those of us in the group to ask tough questions like “Is ‘forgive…
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when you get weary: patience for the harvest
When I was six, my dad took a sabbatical from the college where he taught to focus intensely on his doctoral dissertation. One of his first orders of business? He planted a garden. He laughingly told me years later that he was concerned my little brother and I would think, “Our dad doesn’t have a…