“If you don’t play my game, I won’t be your friend anymore!” With a stormy temper, the seven-year-old next door marched up to my daughter and demanded that they play the game she wanted. My stunned daughter didn’t know what to do. She thought friendship should be more enduring. She soon discovered that friends often…
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Grace + Faith = The Balanced Equation of Life
With safety goggles and long white lab coat on, I began the weekly lab experiment in my high school chemistry class many years ago. I knew that if my measurements were off, I probably wouldn’t cause an explosion, but I would, at the very least, make a mess. I had to be aware of and…
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Grace to Love
“The man I’ll marry must be at least as good as my dog.” That is what the bumper sticker in front of me read. It’s funny that someone would think that a dog could be the model for a good husband. That bumper sticker reveals two ideas: 1) Dogs are great, and 2) dealing with…
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Know Your Role
It has never ceased to amaze me how incredibly breathtaking a pas de deuxis…well, can be. If the roles of the danseur and ballerina are not clearly defined, what is meant to be an incredible feat of strength and beauty turns into a huge, potentially painful mess. Our relationship with God is a lot like…
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