Dog Songs

Dog Songs

Last night our mom and dad took us to Chick-Fil-A, and the drive-thru guy was like THOSE DOGS ARE SO FUNNY YOU CAN’T EVEN SEE THEIR EYES and we said THANKS GIRL then we realized… GIRL WE GOT FLUFFY AGAIN! Wut wut wut wut! And then we were like GIRL GIVE US SOME FRIES and then we were like OOPS YOU’RE NOT A GIRL SO WHY DO WE KEEP SAYING THAT? and he was all “It’s cool,” and Dad was like “stop sniffing my chocolate milkshake,” and Mom was like I WROTE A SONG:

Le de da de de

We are so fluffy

Can’t see anything

Barking at whatever we waaaant

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Hermit the Frog

Hermit the Frog

Well outside world, it was lovely knowing you and walking around in your sunshine and driving to your Chick-Fil-As and then eating the Chick-Fil-A and then being sad that the Chick-Fil-A was all gone. But now I must become a hermit and watch Law and Order: SVU marathons for the rest of my sad life because I am being held hostage in my own home. The front door is being swarmed by giant moths that I am certain are plotting to eat my baby. When I open the front door even a smidge, a few zoom in and eventually die underneath the lamp in the front room, but before that they smack their strange little bodies back and forth in the lamp shade to torment me.

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Honorable Humor

Honorable Humor

If I did not love Jesus, desire to honor and obey him, desire to be shaped into his likeness, desire to point people to him, believe people to be image bearers and therefore desire to honor them — IT WOULD BE SO MUCH EASIER TO BE FUNNY. Now there’s no true delight underneath those jokes, but the laughs would be easy and quick, and I’d pitch books with titles like Oops I Set the Laundry on Fire: Snarky Tales of a Mom Who Loves Her People But Not Enough to Do Stuff for Them, and You Can Have Another Wife If She’s Uglier Than Me: An Irreverent Guide to Marital Bliss, and She Ordered A Salad When I Ordered Pizza and It Was Rude: When Friendship Leads to French Fry Shame.

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Telling Kids the True Story of Thanksgiving (And the True Gospel)

Telling Kids the True Story of Thanksgiving (And the True Gospel)

As I consider how I’ve been taught and how to teach my children, history clashes loudly with the familiar narratives. It’s tempting for us to force-feed redemption into the stories we tell rather than tell stories as they actually are. However, when we strong-arm redemption, we can short-circuit the powerful experience of longing for a Redeemer—and I don’t want my kids to miss that.

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