It was just a few hours before they would arrive for dinner. A family from church would be coming over. They had never been to our home before. I honestly was a little stressed, as I typically am before guests arrive. My house is not fancy or big or full of Pottery Barn decor. I, like many of you, lead a hectic life, with a lot on my plate. I don’t always keep my house as tidy as I should. What if they see a dusty end table? A stray sock in the living room? A sink full of dishes? What will they think? More important, what will they think of me?
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Letting Down Your Guard
Yesterday morning my 14 year old son came down stairs visibly flustered. “There’s a tick stuck in me.” I squinted and strained my eyes to try and decipher what I was actually looking at. This was a speck, no bigger than a grain of sand or the tip of a pin; it could easily be mistaken for an ordinary skin mole or a fleck of dirt. After several minutes I concluded that this little dot was indeed a tick embedded in his shoulder.
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