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Photo by Jordan Christian on Unsplash Twenty-two years ago, on Sept. 11, 2001, I sat with a friend and asked if maybe I would be wrong to bring children into the world.  I had recently gotten married, and I wanted nothing more than to be home with babies.  But towers had tumbled and men, women, even children had died.  Perhaps the sorrows and terrors my children would face in their lives would be too

Photo by Calvin Chai on Unsplash When my nephew was young, he had a game on his iPad called “Dumb Ways to Die.” I remember thinking, “This is a weird game for a child to play."  It has a catchy little song and in the game, beans die from strange accidents. While reading through Ecclesiastes 10:10-13 and seeing all the weird ways one could die (falling into a pit, being bitten by a snake, chopping

Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all. For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a