This blog was a journal entry Michael Miller found recently that he wrote many years ago but that continues to be pertinent to him today and offers us all a different perspective on what repentance really means. I am sitting in a mostly empty plane coming into Denver. Jeanette is flying back from Aberdeen with Maia, and I am going to meet her and surprise her and help with the baby and luggage. I have been thinking lately about sins that are committed repeatedly. We all have addictions, or...

Our blog today comes to us from Barbara Esselink, sharing her insights on forgiveness and the family patterns that affect our lives. Every so often (quite often actually!), my husband will do or say something that will cause me to say “you’re brilliant!” or “that’s amazing!” And my younger son has this funny habit of then promptly asking me, “ Is that the reason you married him?” As if there was only ONE main reason I married him! My son is always on the quest to find out the most important...

{Our post today was written by Laurence Dunn, proud granddad.} Recently we attended our granddaughter’s wedding in Austin, Texas. It was a very moving ceremony, and, despite the heat and humidity, I enjoyed it immensely. To watch our new grandson weep as he listened to his wife-to-be’s words over the intercom before she walked in; to listen to them share the vows they had written to each other; to watch their faces as they took their first communion together—it was so beautiful. And then the...