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Polishing the Gem
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” (Chinese Proverb) Life is filled with joy. It is filled with love. It is filled with adventure. It is also filled with pain, with tribulation, and with trials. You simply can’t have one without the other, and — believe it or not — […]
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Giving Kids a Hard Time
“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” (Roger Lewin) We all know the old saying: “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day; teach a man to fish, and he’ll never go hungry again.” The same is true for our kids…except it’s much harder to swallow. […]
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Me and My Samoan
So Sunday night, Brandon and I watched 60 Minutes. His idea, not mine. They ran a story on the improbable number of Samoans in the NFL. There are something like 28 of them currently playing the highest level of football from a town of about 65,000 total people. According to the story, if a boy […]