1. Our church doesn’t talk a lot about giving up things for Lent. Lent seasons means we have Sunday night services as well, where we bring in speakers who talk about a different theme each year.
  2. Do any of you have one of “those” kids? Every family should have at least one. They humble you.
  3. I love studying books on productivity and efficiency. I have a big family, and I have little people who depend on me and actually expect to eat every day.
  4. She was my friend, walking through marriage troubles. Her husband was unfaithful to her, with the technicalities and carefully drawn lines of “not technically sex” and justifying himself, which had wounded her deeply.
  5. Never has the law fallen so hard on me as in motherhood. Never before was I more aware that my best wasn’t good enough.