help and hope for living on purpose for the sake of Jesus
As I listened to the lilt in her voice when she read Mrs. Frisby’s part in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and then to the deepening of her speech when it was time to read the lines of the bossy rat Brutus, I smiled to myself because my daughter not only “got it” …
I swept the Christmas cookies, candy wrappers, and crumbs from the classroom floor after the party as this fleeting thought swept through my mind, “Of my twenty-seven students, only a few of them said, ‘thank you,’ for the Christmas pencils, erasers, and stamps I gave them.” That thought was quickly replaced with, “Well, I guess …
As my beautiful friend sat across my dining room table from me, the words eventually tumbled out: “I have never been ‘enough’ for my parents. Not good enough. Not hard-working enough. Not successful enough. Not wise enough. I was good. The things I did were good—just not good enough.” What I saw was quite the …