(For the audio version of this blog post, click here.) I used to pick up my daughters and swing them in the air with no problem. I used to give them piggy back rides to bed and swoop them up in car seats with ease. Now, we play tag, they walk to bed, and they hop in the car by themselves. Because, one, they are physically capable. And two, they are now heavy. What changed? Their weight changed. They grew. The force pulling them towards the center of the Earth, namely gravity, is stronger Continue Reading
Grow
Pray
(For the audio version of this blog post, click here ) Have you ever wondered how it is that you can place a pill in your mouth, swallow it, and your aching back stops aching? Or you place a pill in your mouth, swallow it, and you get relief from your itching eyes and runny nose. You can even place a pill in your mouth, swallow it, and return to work freed from your upper respiratory tract infection. How do these pills all enter this one area of our body but have effects on many different Continue Reading
A Light and A Lamp
(For the audio version of this blog post, visit christywilliams.org) I remember going through this phase with my youngest daughter where I wanted her to sleep without a nightlight, but she totally disagreed! I figured if she woke up to a completely dark room, it would send a signal to her brain that it is still “night time” or “too early to be up time” and she would go back to sleep like everyone else in the house rather than walk to my room and ask me for a banana at 5am! I Continue Reading