Completion

Hell week is finished. My wonderful wife is home. The Brewers have won three in a row and are finally scoring runs again. Pro golfers can not break par. Everything is right with the world. Things I learned this last week, in no particular order:
1. I should never (and I am tempted to say no one should ever) parent by myself for any prolonged period of time. This, it seems to me, is something the Church must respond to in creative ways.
2. I waste a lot of time.
3. Life is easier with a buffer. Whether it be money, time, space, when one must live on the edge with no room for error, life is almost impossible. The Church may need to think creatively about this as well.
4. I am a morning person.
5. I really enjoy hot tea, and thanks to my wife, I am discovering that I really, really, enjoy red tea.
6. I love my kids. I can be easily frustrated by my kids. These are not mutually exclusive.
7. The connection between right worship and right living is so obvious in the Scriptures that it is easy to miss. This is why the first commandment comes first. It is also why theology has a role in ethics.
8. Our lives our only enhanced by rejecting the notion of privatized, individual, isolated spirituality. Open, public lives full of stress, joy, anger, exhaustion are still more honest, faithful expressions of the kingdom of God than the alternatives.