First Thoughts on a First Day of School

I don't know where the time has gone, First Grade completely came out of nowhere. It seems like it was just yesterday when he was captivated by a little train named Thomas and all his friends. He was toddling about barely forming words, much less a full sentence. Yet, here I look at him, toddler…

What a World Shattered, Needs From Us

My heart sunk as I pulled up my Facebook page. Again. It was all I could think. I felt sorrow, I felt anxiety, and I felt something that is, I am sure, in close relation to hopelessness. So many emotions and so many feelings...and then I was struck with the most disconcerting feeling of all: selfishness. In…

VBS Reflections: Let the Children Come

But Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children." Mark 10:14 We lived through those final moments of VBS, as Day 5 has now come and gone. It was the ending to a week where I saw people giving…