Parenting

"In all your messy and imperfect and trying, they get a glimpse of what it means to lean into a Savior with a strength far beyond their own."

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"After working 14 hours, the one thing I wanted was a kiss and to hold my wife. When I was in my 20s, this usually meant sex. But now, in my 30s, I’m more interested in simple physical contact with my wife."

"Here’s the truth of the matter. A white voice advocating carries more weight than a Black one."

“I bet you can’t dive all the way to the bottom and touch the grate. If you do it, I’ll buy you a pony,” he said with a sinister smirk.

But terribly, it’s not what many parents and leaders actually do.

When we go shopping after school, I tell my son he has to leave his backpack in the car. When he wants to take a walk past dark with his friends, I tell him “no." He’s not allowed to play with guns that aren’t clearly Super Soakers. If we’re stopped by the police because our headlight is out, I say, “Remember what I taught you.”

"Mallory was never in contact with a person who had an active cold sore. Never. Nobody ever kissed her on the mouth."