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Please. We Can Be Hope. We Can Be Help. Maybe you’ve heard the story that Fred Rogers offered as advice for helping young children cope with frightening circumstances: When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always […]
Last weekend, an earnest, freckled Cub Scout approached me outside our grocery store and asked me to help with his food drive. He gave me a list of especially-needed food items for the food pantry at South County Outreach and invited me to fill up the special red plastic bag that marked “food drive food.” […]
These are my dancing shoes. They don’t look much like your child’s dancing shoes, do they? Your child’s dancing shoes are all mirror-shiny patent with taps sparking their soles. Or satiny ballet slippers tied on with long sleek ribbons. But these shoes make me dance, all the same. Where I live, we have this shallow, shallow stream. And […]
What Hope Can Do “A friendly shark and an ocean to keep him in.” That’s what grandson Cadence was hoping to receive as a birthday gift when he was about to turn three. It’s a wish born of privilege, isn’t it? Thanks be to God, all the things my grandkids hope for are birthed in […]
What Hearts Remember I read this amazing story the other day, I say to my mother-in-law. She and I sit in Denny’s, lingering over the last bites of our pecan-banana pancakes. Really? Yeah. It was a blog post. Your kids caught bugs when they were small, didn’t they? And they brought them home in jars? She nods, […]
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