This last weekend marked the end of our sons’ baseball seasons. Putting up their gear, I paused as I put their bats up on the rack in the garage. Since the age of 5, our oldest has gone through a dozen bats during his nine years of playing, each hanging on this rack like a … [Read more...] about Getting Gritty: Teaching Resilience To Our Kids
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The Temptation of Giving Up
Around this time last year, I was trying to think of goals for myself for 2018 and what I wanted to accomplish and strive for. The word that kept coming back up over and over was “discipline”. So, how was I going to strive on working on discipline in my life? How about run a … [Read more...] about The Temptation of Giving Up
The Beauty of Struggle
I don’t know about you, but I personally hate to struggle. It seems we all are constantly coming face-to-face with some sort of struggle. The struggle to pay bills, the struggle to lose weight, the struggle with spouses and children, the struggle with illness, the struggle at … [Read more...] about The Beauty of Struggle