Tim’s favorite game these days is simply called Skylanders. It’s is a game of pretend that he loves with all his heart … and which I despise. Of course, I am not opposed to pretend. I used to play pretend by the hour, alone on my swing in my parents’ backyard. But the key...
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On Disappointment
So a couple of weeks ago, a woman anonymously published an article about her date with a famous man. It was immediately jumped on by various sides, opinions flying as fast as tweets could be typed. I read a couple of articles, and here’s what I was struck most by. This woman was not...
A Hard Christmas, Part 4: The Secret
I’ve been thinking about my last post. Christmas is hard when we don’t get what we want. It is. It’s hard and not fun, and we would be silly to pretend otherwise. But I wanted to clarify. The reality of a hard Christmas isn’t fun. And dealing with that has to be real or...
A Hard Christmas, Part 3
Timmy was just watching a little Christmas video (Why Do We Call It Christmas? from the folks at What’s in the Bible?). I wasn’t really paying much attention, so I have no idea what exactly the characters said. But suddenly he popped up and said, “Sometimes, you don’t get what you want for Christmas, right, Mom?”...
A Hard Christmas, Part 2
I didn’t really write my last post intending to write a whole series. But this morning, I was reading about the shepherds in Luke 2, and I noticed something. The Christmas story is full of … fear. Luke 1:12 – An angel appeared in the temple to Zechariah: “When Zechariah saw him, he was...