Tuesday. The most ordinary day of the week. It’s not back-to-work-Monday, or hump-day-Wednesday, or Friday-eve-Thursday, or Friday, or the weekend. Tuesday is as ordinary as it gets. It’s a common day. We have one every seven days after all. You can always count on plain-ol’-boring Tuesday to come around. Emily P. Freeman’s book Simply Tuesday is … Read More about Common
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Help
My 20-month-old’s vocabulary has EXPLODED over the last month. Shoe, baby, water, flower, cheese, light, moon, walk, on, off. She’s even putting two words together. Mommy bye-bye, Daddy(‘s) car, yucky dodo (diaper). We taught her a few key sign language words before her first birthday, knowing how helpful it is to be able to communicate before she … Read More about Help
Who
“Who are YOU?” said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I–I hardly know, sir, just at present– at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, … Read More about Who
Pause
Selah. While no one knows for sure why this word appears throughout Psalms, it’s commonly thought to be a musical term (the Psalms are a bunch of songs after all), and many scholars believe it simply means a pause or rest in the music. There is no music in a rest that I know of, … Read More about Pause
When
It’s hard to wait. Today’s culture is full of instant gratification. We’re full of ways to get what we want much faster than what might be natural. And it’s been part of our lives for so long that we’ve gotten used to it, forgetting how things used to be. Before microwaves? Heating on a stovetop … Read More about When
Praise
PRAISE: the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation. (dictionary.com) Praise the Lord, my soul, all my inmost being praise his holy name. Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Great is the Lord … Read More about Praise
