When We Give Each Other the Benefit of the Doubt @ (in)courage
Recently, three friends and I joined thousands of buyers and sellers at the Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Market, one of the world’s largest wholesale shows. We received guest passes, and although our name badges identified us as exhibitors, really...
Do You Have an Exit Strategy? today at (in)courage
The older my kids get — my youngest turns fourteen this month — the more I try to imagine what our empty nest years will look like. Because we spread the births of our eight children over nineteen years, we will have lived with children at home for at least...
Loving Those Who Hate Us at (in)courage
Our heads bowed, our eyes closed. One final prayer and then the singing school our family attends each summer would come to an end. But I was startled by the minister’s words. After all, I’d never heard the phrase “hate my guts” used in prayer, much less in one at...
