I’ve been reading this really interesting book that I got from the library called What the World Eats. It came to my attention when CNN listed a link to a Time Magazine photo essay that included a number of pictures from the book (see Part I and Part II).
What the World Eats was written by [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 30, 2008
What the World Eats
October 25, 2008
Funny Conversations: How Girls Think
Evan: Daddy, sometime you need to teach me how girls think.
Daddy: Hmmm. I don’t think I have that figured out yet.
October 14, 2008
James 3: “The tongue is a…world of unrighteousness”
(Tim emerges from the shadows to make a post)
This video from DesiringGod just floored me today. HT to Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds. Dear God, please enable me to change!
James 3:5-6 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such [...]
October 14, 2008
Motherhood as a Humility-Building Exercise
I get some very interesting questions from my seven-year-old, many of which I am ill-equipped to answer. These questions are typically asked while I am driving, so I have no resources at hand to help me formulate my answers (except for my brain, which I would be hard-pressed to describe as a “resource” lately). Here’s [...]
October 6, 2008
Snippets: Training Children
“My kids have a rough recollection of my Christian propoganda but reproduce my attitudes with a cloned precision.”
–Andree Seu, in her collection of essays entitled Normal Kingdom Business
October 1, 2008
The Art of the Deal
I overheard this outside my bedroom door this evening a few minutes before we were supposed to leave for church:
Kendall: ”You have to! We made a deal!”
Evan: (Reluctantly) “Oooo-kay.”
I probed. Apparently, Evan has committed to playing with Kendall whenever she wants him to, doing whatever activity she feels like doing, for ONE WHOLE MONTH.
Wow. He [...]
