As I said yesterday, Fake it Till You Make it does work. Because it works, we need to be sure the role we “fake” is a good one. My suggestion is to aim for the man/husband/father God wants you to be.

I have been thinking about this a good deal since I read Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story a couple of weeks ago. As Miller helped edit his autobiography into a movie, he learned about telling a story that makes a good movie. During the process he started to see that his own story/life was not what...

From the Generous Wife archive:

There was a snafu over vacation time for a friend of mine. What that meant was that there would be no typical vacation for him and his family this summer. Serious bummer.

I have to hand it to them though. They are being creative with little mini-vacations, day trips and weekend fun.

Paul and I are having to do much the same this summer. We can't take off for a couple of weeks, but...