I hate jigsaw puzzles. Yeah, I just said that. I love games, but jigsaw puzzles mess with me. Even when there’s a box top to look at, they’re just tedious. I could name a few people right now who are reading this and thinking how wrong I am. (I will allow that puzzle-love is in […]
Someone once said I live a charmed life. I’m not sure, even now, how to respond to that except to laugh. It’s not a bitter laugh, but it would’ve been once upon a time. My childhood bordered on blissful, if you discount the fact that I’ve always been hard-headed. I was loved fully and unconditionally, […]
So . . . we’re all pondering our New Year’s resolutions. Every year, in the Kaczmarek household, the same burdens rest on our shoulders and weigh on our hearts. And every year, one soars to the top of the priority chart: Nurturing, training, equipping, loving our children. It’s daunting. Especially these days. But if we […]
Sometimes, a missionary feels like he’s dying a martyr’s death. Only slow. And on the inside. There are times, of course, when he rejoices that he has the privilege of suffering for such a worthy cause and offers himself up willingly. There are times when The Job eats at his heart like an aggressive cancer. […]
I allow myself to be consumed too often. Oh, sometimes it’s homeschooling my four treasures—reading, coaching the grueling revision process, praying while some labor over math. Sometimes it’s writing—revising my first novel, finishing my second, researching future ventures. This month, it’s more often been menu-planning and cooking. It’s the word consumed that is the glaring […]
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