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Tag Archives: maturity
Our True Colors?
I love to see the leaves change color in autumn, don’t you? Except that it’s a myth. Leaves don’t change color. My wife and I often walk in the woods. We’re blessed to live near Mount Airy Forest in Cincinnati, the oldest “urban forest” in the U.S., and what we’ve learned (as … Continue reading
It’s My 5th Blogiversary!
I’m 5 today! And you know what that means — It means I get to go to school with the bigger blogger kids now! According to development experts, these are the: 10 Key Traits of a Five Year Old Displays … Continue reading
My Age of Anxiety
Conclusion: Life Beyond the Tunnel (To read Part One, click here) It would be nice, though less epic, if my story of anxiety had ended at year seven. It didn’t. But something had changed. I’d moved from trying to control my … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Memoir
Tagged anxiety, couseling, discipleship, funny, healing, maturity, wisdom
21 Comments
The Right Person
We spend so much of our lives waiting for “the right person.” The right person to marry. The right person to hire us for that career-making job. The right person to make it happen, whatever “it” is. Many years ago, … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Memoir, Quips and Quotes
Tagged Ecclesiastes 3:1, growth, inspiration, maturity, purpose, right, wisdom
49 Comments
The Phases of Adulthood
Why are there so many names for the different phases of life from birth through teens (baby, toddler, pre-schooler, kindergartner, grade-schooler, pre-teen, tweener) and almost none for the 60+ years that follow? It’s not fair! I mean, you’re not just … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Humor
Tagged adulthood, aging, childhood, life, maturity, middle-aged, Millennials, teen
35 Comments
I Always Knew You Loved Me, Mom
(See video below) Mom was twenty when I was born—twenty times as old as me. But when I turned ten, I suddenly realized she was now only three times as old as me. And when I reached twenty she would … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Memoir, Story Power
Tagged growth, love, maturity, mom, Mother's Day, personal
18 Comments
Fools
“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “To avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Quips and Quotes
Tagged Alice Walker, Einstein, foolish, maturity, truth, wisdom
27 Comments