Our sons are chore-challenged, but it’s not their fault. I haven’t taught them how to work.
But I’ve seen an example of how it can be done. I had a few jaw-dropping moments the last time I was at Steve and Beth Ann’s house. I had been there before and noticed the steady [...]
It’s impossible to snap
green beans and not let the ticking
rhythm assure you of the good
work firm in your fingers,
the good work about to rise
up through the metal steamer’s holes
making the four-quart Farberware lid
dance either nervous or giddy
with energy. Yet I never heard
the lid’s train-track clickety-clack
jiggle nor the popping of water’s boil.
Just the seven-minute timer [...]
Scenario 1:
The customer is turning up the pressure. If we don’t deliver the product soon enough and with sufficient quality, we will lose this buyer to the competitor. I am the lead designer for this part; no one else can do what I do, so I have to work extra. Just until [...]
(High Calling Blogs Book Club:
Loving Monday, by John Beckett, Chapters 22-24
See Laura Boggess’s post (and links to other Book Club posts) here.)
I love Mondays! But . . . do my boys know I do?
In this week’s Book Club chapters, Beckett tells of his experience with Southwest flight attendants who clearly loved their job and [...]
(High Calling Blogs Book Club:
Loving Monday, by John Beckett, Chapters 8-11
See Laura Boggess’s post (and links to other Book Club posts) here.)
When the child was very young we called it “spit-up,” an appropriately mild term for a mere teaspoonful or two of mama’s milk that backed up, the belly being too full to take it [...]
“How’s everything back home?” Nehemiah asks his brother, Hanani.
The news is terrible and heart-breaking. The walls have burned down. After his initial gut reaction, Nehemiah the Cupbearer straightens his tie and knocks at the big boss’s office door. He approaches King Artaxerxes.
“If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found [...]
...to Know-Love-Obey God
