Category: Blogs
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Suffering From the January Blues? (You’re Not Alone)
Have you heard about Blue Monday? Someone told me it’s supposed to be the most depressing day of the year and falls on the Monday of the last full week of January. This year it was January 20th. Not sure about the science of that, but what many of us know is this: January can get…
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If You’re Raising Girls, Don’t Make This Mistake
I’ve been doing a lot of reading on parenting these days. Makes sense—not only do I care about families, but I’m a dad to 3 small kids. 2 girls, 1 boy. And a lot of my reading is actually on the boy side because of a great book I picked up on what neuroscience and…
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Courage (A Christmas Day Message)
It’s Christmas Day. A baby cries. It will not be the last time. A mother is tired. It will not be the last time. Hope muscles her way through the naysayers to the edge of a ledge in the dark and prepares to fly. In response to the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster in 1986, Ronald…
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Jesus Without Tinsel (A 7-Year-Old Doesn’t Get a Christmas Tree)
In 1939 Eugene was 7 years old. And his mother decided they would not get a Christmas tree. She was a woman of conviction and had seen a passage from the biblical book of Jeremiah in a new way: “Learn not the way of the nations… for the customs of the people are false. A tree from…
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Making Christmas Meaningful
Christmas is like water. It can be a great source of nourishment—but it can also drown you. The beauty can be eclipsed by a distracted extravagance we can’t afford. So here are 12 ideas to help make Christmas more meaningful for you and your family. (FYI, I’ve borrowed many of these ideas from friends and…
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If You Make It About Presents, Guess What?
I think we all want Christmas to be awesome. Filled with awe. And as I drive through the neighbourhoods and see multi-coloured lights going up as the snow comes down in beautiful slow motion, anticipation builds. And it’s a strange time. For many people this season is quite sad, especially as they think of loved…
