(If you're reading via email, click here to listen to the audio version of today's post.) I tucked my daughter in bed and she said, “Mommy you did not pray with me at bedtime.” I said, “When?” She said, “At bedtime.” I was puzzled. This is bedtime and I was still here in the room. Was she assuming I was about to leave without praying (which I was, but she did not know that). In my defense, please know that I had been traveling the 2 nights prior to this particular night, so that’s why I had Continue Reading
You: The Salt of the Earth
(If you're reading via email, click here to listen to the audio version of today's post.) I recently had a dental procedure and the doctor told me to stop using my current mouthwash and to instead do warm salt rinses 3 times a day until my mouth is healed. He went on to explain that the wound in my mouth would benefit from 3 main characteristics of salt. Salt has antibacterial properties and can therefore minimize the risk for infection. Salt is abrasive. A warm salt solution is gentle Continue Reading
Persevere
A family friend recently shared about how he has been watching his 9-month old daughter’s endless efforts to pull her self up. She crawls over to the nearest structure, gets a grip, and goes at it. Her goal is to stand. Oftentimes she falls back to the floor. But she tries it all over again. One day her dad noticed something that I find absolutely fascinating. He picked her up by grabbing her the way he has probably every day of her 9-month old life when he realized she was more firm in some Continue Reading