growing in wisdom
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When Suffering Finds Us

I don’t know anyone personally who enjoys suffering. Looks for it. Welcomes it. I know I don’t. But in this broken world we cannot avoid it. Oh, our personal choices influence, even determine, the kind of suffering we might endure or avoid. But often it finds us anyway. Through no choice of our own. Someone… Continue reading
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Toddler Wisdom

If your family is like mine, your children composed for you a collection of isms from which you often pull to illustrate a point. Or fondly remember days gone by. Around here, we use our collection regularly. And while I would be delighted to share from the Book of Aymond-isms, for the sake of my… Continue reading
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I Stopped Putting God First

Yes. You read that correctly. I might lose friends over this. But… I stopped putting God first in my life. For years, “Keep God First” was a well-intentioned mantra for many of my friends and me. We said it often. We wrote it a lot. And we meant it. We did. And J. O. Y.… Continue reading