» AFFIRMATION

This New Heart

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another,
even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”
After thousands of years of sincerely religious people bluffing and play-acting with love, God gives His children a new heart: completely new creatures, fully righteous, without any condemnation, who can actually live out [...]

Letters

I never wanted children. I just wanted to be married. Stacey never wanted to be married. She just wanted children. But the state laws were pretty strongly worded against her desires…so she married me.
…And she has taught me how to love being a dad. And it changed everything.
Affirmation is a big deal in our family. [...]

Smiley Face

I have a Blackberry or Crackberry or whatever you want to call it.  I resisted for a long time.  I had so any friends that were hopelessly addicted and that couldn’t carry on a conversation without looking down at that little screen every two minutes.  I even had a friend end up in two casts [...]

The Power of Affirmation

I got affirmed yesterday. I don’t mean that someone paid me a compliment or said something flattering. I was actually, meaningfully and deeply affirmed. Bill was the one to offer the affirmation. And the timing couldn’t have been better. There are a few areas in my job that I haven’t [...]