Fingerprint Friday: Lessons Learned

By MAD21

My oldest gave in to temptation this week. There was a situation at school where she saw something she wanted and in her sweet six-year-old mind thought she could lie her way into obtaining it, innocently of course. What started out as a lie of omission, turned into a lie of deception, that turned into a full-on denial of the truth.

A pink-slip followed, along with discussions, notes of apology, 20 "I will not lie" written, reasons given as to why lying of any kind is wrong, and Friday afternoon movies cancelled.

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One (Of Many) Spiritual Lessons I Learned From Renovating My Home

by Kevin (Shooting the Breeze)

This summer, my wife and I (with the help of many others) renovated our downstairs (you can see some of our pictures here ).  It was a HUGE job – a job that I don’t plan on doing again for a LONG time!  As with any renovation, there were different problems along the way that we had to deal with.  The one that I want to share in this post is the last problem that we had to overcome - wiring our hood van above the stove. 

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