The inward consequences of paying attention—faith, meaning, memory, gratitude, mortality, hope, identity, belonging, and the formation of character.
Every family carries stories that explain who they have become. Some are joyful. Some are painful. A few reveal, only after many years, the quiet providence of God weaving through generations. This is one of ours.
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On a summer evening in the South, there’s a certain stillness that settles in just before dusk. The heat softens, the light turns golden, and somewhere in the yard—whether it’s a row of tomatoes, a bed of herbs, or a few faithful hydrangeas—you can almost feel the garden exhale. It’s easy to think of a
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There is a peculiar tenderness that accompanies the parenting of grown children. When they are little, you know where they are almost every moment of the day. You buckle them into car seats, tuck them into bed, hold their hands crossing busy streets, and count heads before leaving the playground. Their world is, in many
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A few days after living through a brief season with almost no margin in my life, and just before I was to pick up my four-year-old granddaughter for a morning at the park, I backed my beautiful Toyota 4Runner straight into the trailer hitch of a parked truck. Hard. I was in a hurry. I
The older I grow, the more grateful I become to live in a place that embraces all four seasons with equal conviction. Summer arrives full of confidence. It beckons us outdoors to linger a little longer beneath wide blue skies, to gather tomatoes still warm from the vine, to breathe deeply of basil and sun-warmed
