Tag: family

And that is how I think of Father’s Day. Mother’s Day, too. Yes, they are manufactured holidays. But they also are a celebration of linear family.

I think of her this time of year and miss the laughs we had, even though our fights and disagreements seem far more fresh in my memory.

We need to provide for the spiritual protection of our homes and families, just as much as the temporal protection.

For some of us, the Internet reveals those we believed were strangers are actually family.

As you know, if you read this column, family was a complicated thing for me as a child. I envied my friends who had two parents and who had brothers and sisters. I would daydream about having their life.

Parents can love, set patterns, teach expectations, and model examples, but we can’t shield our children from every challenge or struggle, every illness or misfortune.

The main purpose of the trip was to see my grandson perform for the last time in a children's play at his church. Next year he'll be 13 and will be too “old” for that sort of thing. This play was a right of passage for him, and I had to be there to see it.