Our family was reading the story of Job recently. For those of you not familiar with this story, it is a Bible story and apparently, could be one of the oldest stories in there. This is not your typical every-day story, but it really shows the depth of character in a man who doesn’t know who he is battling with, but knows who his God is. What Job does not know, as he sees his possessions taken, his children die (10 of them!), his wife become angry at him, and his health destr

Today our daughter would have been three years old. Three. How has the time gone by so quickly? And yet so slow. It feels like that part of my life is so far in the past, and yet there is this very real sense that this was just yesterday. And all of the sudden, that three becomes four. Years that slowly pass, ebbing and flowing with joy and sadness, constantly intermingling the two. I know the few years will become many. And it makes me sad to think about. The memories feel m

Learning identity in the face of failure.