My 4-year-old was making a list of the things she wants Santa to bring her for Christmas 2018. (Yes, in January, she’s planning for December. I find this both impressive and concerning.) She asked her sister “What do you want?” The 7-year-old said she wanted two books, Rags and Riches and A Christmas Carol. She goes on to explain that she needs these two books because she realized in a conversation with her Papa earlier that day that she needs to “review these books again to get better at Continue Reading
Practice
I remember a professor telling our graduating class that we can never lose our degree. We may lose the license to practice our craft, but once that degree has been issued, that’s it. This was not new and profound information. But just hearing him say it made the absolute nature of this truth more vivid in my mind. I thought, “You mean there is no error or misconduct that can strip this degree away from me? Wow!” Similar thoughts came to mind as I read the first several chapters of 1 Continue Reading
Her? Yes, Her!
Have you ever made assumptions about someone based on their past or their parent’s past? I have. As a matter of fact, I did so just the other day. I was reading 1 Kings Chapter 1 and came across verse 11. This verse reads, “Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon . . .” Let me be completely honest: My initial response was “Bathsheba!? She’s Solomon’s mama??!!” Then I remembered I had the exact same response when I read 2 Samuel where the birth of Solomon is recorded. Why am I so Continue Reading