because motives matter
This year Katie's birthday post includes a surprise gathering, a long marriage, and a poem about boundary stones and covenant love. Sometimes a birthday is less about getting older and more about noticing the ground you’ve been given to stand on.
We wouldn’t do it again, at least not the same way. Or advise it. There was stress and silence. And there was anger and hurt. Family pictures don't tell the whole story.
It's my life story, sort of. And you are welcome to correct errors of fact.
Tonight there were four candles on our table, but only one was lit. It is the first week of Advent and, if you let it, every meal can be turned to worship.
As long as we have lazy and indifferent fathers our sons will be happy to let their wives take care of things. And to take charge of things.
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