By Stevie Swift I’m Raising a Busy Boy
My boy lifted his little newborn head up off the bed while we were still in the hospital–straining and red-faced,…
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Stevie Swift
I Sang to a Dying Stranger and Touched Heaven
Years ago, a friend called me out of the blue. “My friend’s grandma is at hospice. They don’t know how…
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Dear Christian, You Are Created For Church
You may need a break from sitting in a building on a certain day at a certain time, but you…
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I Just Can’t Balance it All
I decided to stop using “balance” to describe how I manage life as a grown-up. Partly because “balance” conjures up…
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I’m Glad You Showed Up
I played basketball one year in high school. For some reason we practiced in the morning before school, and one…
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When the Holy Spirit Said “Nope.”
I was bone tired—the kind of tired where two days of sleep might, maybe, take the edge off—when I got…
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I Can’t Give You All of My Time, But I Promise to Give You My Attention
You came up to me as I reviewed documents for a client and, without intro, you launched into a lecture…
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A Husband is Not a Gap-Filler
On a cold morning in October of 2015, four of my friends came to sit with me while I discovered whether…
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Dear Kids, When Church is Dumb
In the summer of 2010 I dragged my eight-months pregnant-with-you butt into a car with no air conditioning and drove…
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