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Yesterday's reflection-contentment-and-work has a second-part this morning. As I was wrapping up a project I didn't realize the closed-off-ness of leaving......

!!! note "Philippians 4:11"

I’m a dad and I have 2 beautiful daughters in my house right now. As they’ve grown up just a little from new-born to toddler to child, my wife and I have worked hard to have the right posture and attitude towards “discipline”. I have noticed that 3 words seem to kind of meld into each other and I prefer they have clear boundaries, because in our household we’re very intentional to not punish… Punishment is a heavy and weighty thing and we don’t want our kids to grow up thinking they get punished for messing up. Kids certainly know right and wrong to some degree, and even when they knowingly do something “bad” it’s not necessarily that there was malicious intent behind it… In my mind - ‘punishment’ is for malpractice, but erroring and making an unwise choice to “do something bad” is a lack of judgement and that doesn’t require punishment, it should illicit discipline. Why be so pedantic about these 2 words in particular? Well because I don’t think it’s appropriate for my daughters to be…

I went to sit down this morning with a cup of coffee and do a meditation like I try to do at least a few times a week. I meditate on the Bible, on God's word...