One of the primary definitions of encouragement is the action of giving someone support, confidence, or hope. Based on what I’ve seen over the past few months and years, I’d like to take that definition a little bit further to say encouragement—and what it brings to the recipient—is actually both life-giving and life-saving. Life-giving We’re all called […]
Growing up at summer camp
Portions of this post were originally posted in the spring of 2012, but I wanted to revive it since it’s that time of year again… time to think about summer camp! I enjoyed a very Peter Pan type of childhood… well, if Peter Pan lived in the concrete jungle. 🙂 All the neighborhood kids spent endless summer […]
On Turning 40
A few years ago I started writing a post entitled “things I want to do before I’m 40.” I had forgotten all about that post until I found it in the bowels of un-published content on my site. I hadn’t gotten much past the title, so I’m not even sure exactly what I was thinking […]
Count it all joy (a.k.a. each week it sucks a little less)
Last week I wrote about how much transition sucks. Many people responded to encourage us, including a personal trainer in Florida. She’s currently working with a guy who is particularly out of shape. So they came up with a mantra to help keep him going: Each week it sucks a little less. Sounds about right. We’ve now […]