Yesterday I started reading the book Simplify by Bill Hybels (a good read that I encourage any parent, fathers in particular to pick up).  The book asks, are you over scheduled, exhausted, overwhelmed?  That certainly sounds familiar to me.  If so, Hybels encourages readers that life won’t simplify itself, it’s up to us to act.  Who…

This past Sunday during service our pastor issued a challenge: see if you can notice God’s faithfulness in your life.  And when you do, start building memorials to the instances where you catch God’s goodness in action.  So over the past few days, I’ve been doing just that.  At first it was easy (and fun),…

Do you have a vision for your family’s future? If so, how are you working towards it each day? As my wife and I prepare to expand our family, I’ve been thinking more and more about the vision that we have for our family.  We started with an end destination in mind, but I’ve got…

Today was the girls first swimming lessons, and from the looks of things they’re falling in line right with their personalities.  Except, not really. Riley we’ve always known is the rule follower.  I could tell as I watched her listen attentively to the directions of her swim instructor, intense, hanging on her every word.  She…