I was thinking about how being married with kids limits your freedom and increases your responsibility. It’s clear to me that Paul the Apostle’s encouragement to not marry was to keep you nimble and single-minded. If it were just me, I could deprive—even abuse myself, but I must provide and protect my family. And not [...]
Today my son and I watched a bit of the tragic opera, Madama Butterfly. He watched the screen attentively. After about fifteen minutes of that, we watched Elmo tap dance.
I’m a little behind. I know. I was going over “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” in my head last week. Just saying it again and again and it became increasingly dramatic. I might have moved into melodrama on this spoken word piece, but here it is. I hope it’s helpful. a [...]