Is it just me, or does there seem to be a larger number of angry yellers and drama queens among parents in our culture than in the past? Why is that? I don’t know if you read Jim Denison’s The …
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I’m not gonna lie: this empty nesting thing is fantastic. Before you judge me as callous, remember, the purpose of all this, all you’re doing with these kiddos, is to raise and release. I know it’s …
2021 Commencement
On May 22, we held the commencement exercises for the Grace Community School Class of 2021. With 91 graduates, it is our second-largest graduating class in our school’s history. The class was also …
Broken and Grateful
As I’ve reflected on the school year and its many blessings, God has brought me back time and time again to this Christian idea of brokenness before the Lord. Ann Voskamp notes that the key to life is …
Stuff Your Mom Said
My mother is a southern belle, a steel magnolia, and a force of nature. She was born in Tyler, in the house I raised my girls. Her father died when she was seven. She was raised by an …
Best Friends
This past weekend, I did something really fun. I attended a wedding of one of my childhood friends. Not a kid with whom I went to high school, or played football together, but a neighborhood kid. You …
On Providence
One of the crazy things about life in Christ in a fallen world is that we don’t always live like we believe. Take deism. We often act as functional deists, thinking of God as a kind of cosmic …
Family Business
I once heard a man say that he had been married to several different women, and they were all the same person. I know what he means. When I first married Ashley, she made it clear she had no real …
Sympathy for the Betrayer
I recently read a book on simplifying one’s life. One of the suggestions the author gave was to greyscale one’s smartphone so the phone has no color. The idea is that brightly-colored apps, photos, …
Scars
The day I learned to walk was momentous for two reasons. One, I became a two-legged creature, as I have been and will be every day of my life until I start using a cane. Second, I earned my first …
Stripped Away
It’s almost Academy Award time again, and one of the upsides to COVID and the shut-down of movie theaters across the country is that most movies that will be nominated for awards have already appeared …
A Grace-Filled Approach to STEM
I am sometimes asked why we make such a heavy financial investment in what, over the past decade or so, has come to be known as “STEM”-science, technology, engineering, and math-here at Grace. Others …