Letters to My Son in Prison

I came to see my old church as part of the problem. I realized that people had become too prominent and God too small; religion had become too important and the Spirit too trivial.

She knew the ricochet of blame and the circularity of grace.

redirect more than discipline.

Out of the 783,000 words in the Good Book, only a hundred or so directly address the subject, and most of those are very general. Why would that be? Well, here’s a thought. Maybe parenting style or technique or methodology is not the most important variable in raising children. Maybe it’s more nuanced than that. Maybe it has more to do with alignment than approach. Perhaps a parent’s chief concern should be learning to listen to their own gut, to their own particular God-given constitution, to that tiny voice inside of them that nudges them one way or the other.

The breath of words fade. The memory of a glance is forgotten. The vibration of the inner eardrum stops. But words on paper - they remain