Last Spring, a blue bird took one look at the inside of our house and decided he wanted in. The persistent little fellow bashed into our breakfast room window hundreds of times over the course of several months, knocking himself silly several times. Why did he persist in this crazy self-harm? Why did he believe…
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National Girl Scout Day
The Girl Scout Promise On my honor, I will try to serve God and my country, to help other people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law. On this day in 1912, Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout meeting. It took place in Savannah, in my home state. The…
Lenten Sacrifice
Today is Ash Wednesday, the day millions of Christian believers around the world confront their own mortality and confess their sins before God. I am one of those millions. Many of us attend worship services and allow pastors to etch ash crosses on our foreheads as a public demonstration of our humility before God. In…