Stuff That Came Up Yesterday

Personality and style are often confused with passion.

We'd all be better off if we, like Francis Schaeffer said, spoke boldy and with authority where the Bible speaks boldly and with authority and then remain quiet about what the Bible doesn't say.

Parents cannot shelter their children from the world, but some really believe it's doable.

You won't find the answer you really need in the next book or tape series. Check out what the Bible says first.

Teenage girls who are 15 and weigh about 115 pounds can think they're fat, and there's not a lot that can be done to change their minds.

One-hour with a teenager can change the whole day: For better or worse, depending on what you talked about.

Trying to communicate a big idea on one page is harder than one would think.

People have trouble dealing with individual responsibility...even if they really do want to take that responsibility on.

Communion services--complete with meal--designed expressly for that purpose should be done more in churches, no matter what size they are.

Sometimes people sing with gusto and other times not so much and I can't predict or analyze "why" in either case.

Teenagers sense when parents are under stress, and their parents think they don't.

Parents tend to dismiss the stress levels of their children. Granted, comparatively speaking they might be right, but the stress the teen is under is age-appropriate and very, very real to them. Same goes for a teen who is infatuated or in love.

There are lots of little chiropractor jokes that seem funny to me and I have no idea why. I think my imagination combines some sort of midevial torture chamber, just whiter and lighter and cleaner, with the end result being people who get helped. The combination just seems funny to me. As you can tell, I've never been to a chiropractor.

When you have a bit of firewood you're going to shelter from the elements and you're using a wheelbarrow you haven't used in a while, it's best to check the tire pressure before you load up the first bundle.

When you tell people that you've kept a journal of some type off and on since 9th grade they kind of look at you with disbelief.

Friends telling you about their teenage children reading what people wrote when signing their high school yearbooks years ago will make you want to keep yours well hidden...as well as almost make you do a "spit take."

If you could read my personal journal descriptions of the events that spurred today's sanitized-for-public-reading versions, you might actually pay me money to do so...