A four-month calendar lay on the kitchen island, with a third of the coming year on display. When I walked into the room, I saw that it had highlights and marks. I wasn't exactly sure what was going on, but I had an educated guess as to what it meant.
I always start the year off with great ambitions for what and how much I am going to read. Then spring hits, I end up being outside more and my reading pace drops off.
We were heading over to visit some friends. It wasn't a long trip. These friends live in the same county that we do, but we had not yet been to their new home. It was in a newer development, you know the kind where all the homes look the same and the streets run parallel with each other. Little did I know the street I chose to turn down was not a thruway. What I thought would lead me to my destination actually ended in a dead end.
And while we recognize the importance of each of these skills to developing our kids into fully functioning mature adults, there are other areas we want our kids to grow in. One of these major areas is discernment.
When I eat too much from the top of the food pyramid, it's not healthy. When I starve my body of the foundational elements, it can be damaging. If this is true of our bodily diets, cannot we not apply the same framework to our intake of knowledge and information.
You find yourself in the middle of a situation seeking to discern what is going on and how to respond appropriately...
Preacher on the Run... 