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The Douglass Report’s Daily Dose is always entertaining reading. This week:

Find a good tree. When you’ve had enough sun, stand under it — because that’s your safest sunscreen product.

In some ways, summer is harder than winter for me. The days are longer, the prairie sun is too fiercely bright to be outside much, and MFH’s home-from-work time runs late and too close to bedtimes to take an evening walk usually. I start to slow down when the temperature rises above 70 [...]

…is how long it now takes TLG to climb up onto the changing table. Yes, we do have climbers around here.

[The previous post mentioned some of the external factors for parenthood being difficult, but there are plenty of difficulties inherent in the job under even ideal conditions.]
MFH is working another long, long, long day.
Ninety degree heat, with at least ninety percent humidity. I think alligators are going to start crawling up out of the [...]

…here by Glenn Reynolds about the current high social costs of being a parent, half from safety nazis and half from a child-intolerant culture. I spend a good ten or fifteen minutes a week just buckling children into car seats, and that’s just for weekly shopping and to go to church. My parents [...]

Prediction Fourteen: All the gloom and doom I predicted in Predictions One through Thirteen will not be the whole story.
It’s relatively easy to see what the forces of evil are up to. Not always easy, though, to see what God is doing. There will be at least a remnant preserved, but who [...]

I reread The Allure of Hope, by Jan Meyers. This is how I summed it up to MFH: “Our suffering from unmet desires should draw us closer to God.” We were meant for Eden, and that’s not where we are right now; it is not evil to desire good things.