After I finally got a book contract for When God Says “Wait” (the whole process took approximately 17 million years), I joked to my husband that I was going to name my next book When God Says “Yes” Immediately.
Well, I didn’t name my next project that, but I did name it When God Says ...
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When Waiting Is Terrifying
When I was seven, I rode Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain at Disney World, got terrified out of my Jams and jelly shoes... and that was it. (Jams and jelly shoes—anyone else wear those? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?) From then on, I swore off roller coasters. I successfully avoided the rattling ...
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How to Help Preschoolers Handle Their Feelings
So let's talk preschoolers.
They're delightful one minute, demonic the next. One moment their mantra is "By Myself"; the next they are the helpless baby again. One of the most important things we have to do for our two-, three-, and four-year-olds is help them develop emotional self-control. They ...
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When There’s Beauty in Waiting
This was the view through my windshield the other day as I was waiting in traffic, stuck sitting through many cycles of the same traffic light. I'd been sitting there, frustrated and bored, wishing I was somewhere else—anywhere else—but then I looked up. For the rest of the wait, I sat, awestruck, ...
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