Giving Up Clutter for Lent, Part Four: Clutter Wins. Or Does It?

Friday, March 23, 2012
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A few days ago, I had about 90 minutes, maybe 2 solid hours if I was lucky, to do as I pleased. My youngest son, who requires the most hands-on care, was blissfully asleep. My 6-year-old was out of the house and my eldest was reading, which he can do for an entire afternoon when given the opportunity. So what would I do with this unusual bounty of time? My mind was spinning with how I could use it, what task I should attack, whether I could get most of it done in two hours. Before this point, I had been cleaning the kitchen from the morning aftermath, then doing non-stop loads of laundry, then feeding my kids lunch, then…

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Sometimes Kids Know Better!

Friday, November 19, 2010

I recently gave a talk at the 2010 Missional Learning Commons on the topic of how children often embrace and demonstrate missional living more easily than the adults in their lives. For an example, look no further than Matthew 18, the passage in which the disciples are arguing about the question of who will be the greatest in heaven. As a response, Jesus places a child before them and says those famous words, “Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” I think the child in that setting must have been beaming, full of joy from Jesus selecting him from the crowd, so amazed and encouraged that Jesus was using him as the example for the…

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