My desire for family dinner, why it’s so dang hard, and some ideas to explore

I believe that people have a natural urge to explore - the constant journey to discover what’s around the next bend or over the next rise. At the same time, we crave roots - the utterly familiar where we rest, recover, dream, and plan. When I look around our dinner table, I see that we all have our own set of issues, some obvious and some not so obvious. Some of us are wild and hyper, some are secretly nervous about upcoming transitions, and some are in a personal battle with something that even they themselves may not fully understand.…
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And yet…

There is so much that’s great. People. Ideas. Landscapes. Art. Friendship. Courage. Skill. Individuality. Purpose. Love… like the love Heather must have for me. And like the love Jesus must have for me… to give up his life for me on the cross, to redeem me. Me! A chief of sinners. What do I feel when I realize how retched I actually am … wholly incapable of pulling myself out of the muck I am so drawn to and turning and calling out to Jesus? Because if I am honest, I secretly wish I could be deserving of salvation on…
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Never spend less than $100

Never spend less than $100

We all know what it is like to feel trapped in the urgent. You know, all the stuff that if somehow don’t get done right now the world will come crashing down. I woke up the other morning about 3 with a list of four or five things that all of a sudden “absolutely had to get done today for sure”, if not yesterday. (It is interesting that these things were comfortably on a list of “things that ought to be done tomorrow” the night before.) But at three am when I really should have been sleeping, the blasted things…
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