"Honey, do you know why momma is going to have to discipline you?" I asked my three-year-old daughter. With a quivering lower lip and big eyes filled with tears she replied, "Yes, Momma, because you wuv me." The look in her eyes gave away the fact that she was parroting what she had heard me say to her in explanation in our previous hand-to-bottom sessions. She was trying to reconcile my … [Read more...] about The Hard Side of Love
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A Raging Fire
Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. James 3:5-6 (NIV)Scripture says that our mouths tell on us constantly. The tongue … [Read more...] about A Raging Fire
Growing Pains
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NIV)We have a very special … [Read more...] about Growing Pains
Piano Lessons
"Blessed is the man you discipline, O LORD, the man you teach from your law; you grant him relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked."Psalm 94:12-13 (NIV)I became obsessed with playing the piano the year we moved to Congo when I was ten years old. The first question out of my mouth at a missionary friend's home was, "Can I play your piano?" I realize now why some … [Read more...] about Piano Lessons
The Voice
"Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker, for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today!The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness." Psalm 95:6-8 (New Living Translation)It's Saturday! It's … [Read more...] about The Voice
