I Can Do All Things (Phil four thirteen)

Go to church long enough and the same topics and scriptures are repeated. If they use the lectionary it is roughly every three years or so. At most churches it is somewhere between 3 and 5 years…except around Christmas and Easter, they are repeated annually. Rarely do you hear a good sermon about Jael driving […]

Clinical

Today is clinic day. Once or twice a year we go to Childrens National medical center to the spina-bifida clinic to see all of Ethan’s specialists at once. Ethan does not have spina-bifida per say, but VACTERL has a lot of the same issues.In addition to meeting with the doctors, he has a number of […]

I am an association; but one day I hope to be a syndrome

The last moments of my vacation are unwinding. Tomorrow it is back to the salt mine. It has been a crazy week and a half. One week of Disney and a weekend of VACTERL Association conference. Both events were firsts. Disney was OK, but I think the VACTERL Conference will stay with me much longer. […]

This disease brought to you by, Snickers.

It is now officially Netflix season. Actually for my family it has been for several weeks. Every summer after the TV season ends, my wife and I find a TV show on Netflix that we never watch when it was on TV and watch every episode in order. Last summer it was “Roswell.” This summer […]

Put on a happy face

Jenn told me something last night that almost made me cry. While she was giving Ethan his enema, he asked if he “tried” real hard could he stop having the enema and catheterizations. Sadly, I think it is finally dawning on him that his life is not exactly like his friends. On another […]

Blur II

I titled this entry Blur too, but for an entirely different reason. This morning a Ugandan Children’s choir visited our church. The singing and dancing were almost breathtaking. Their choreography was so rapid that literally they were a blur at times. And while they were dancing they were singing too. Only children could move and […]