by H. Wallace Goddard
The Balm of Gilead is closer than you might think.
We are all injured. Every mortal carries an assortment of chafes, bruises, and malfunctions. Some people’s disorders are more debilitating or apparent, but no mortal is … Read more
by H. Wallace Goddard
All ideas on parenting are not created equal, and some “good ideas” may not be so good as others.
There is a general law that you get what you pay for. It seems that cheap chips … Read more
Mom says I was a pleasant baby. As I grew, I must have become less pleasant. I remember spending a lot of my growing-up years annoying and battling my siblings. I suppose that struggles with life and siblings teach all … Read more
A big chunk of parenting time and energy is spent trying to get children to do some things or stop them from doing others. In the course of trying to get our children to “behave,” most of
by H. Wallace Goddard
Perhaps the most pernicious sins are those that make us feel virtuous.
Perhaps the most pernicious sins are those that make us feel virtuous while we devastate our fundamental Christian professions. For instance, the Pharisees were … Read more
by H. Wallace Goddard
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found. (Luke 15:32)
In a rural Utah town some years … Read more
by H. Wallace Goddard
The great danger for humans is that we will walk by the light of our own understanding.
… Read moreWe wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
We grope for the wall
“I can’t tell her about my trouble. Even if I begged her not to tell, I know she would tell everyone she talked to. And the story she told would be an awful distortion.” A saintly friend spoke of a … Read more
By Wallace Goddard
by H. Wallace Goddard
Recently I served on a panel at a parenting conference. At the end of the panelists’ presentations we invited questions from the audience. A young and earnest mother with a baby in her arms asked, “I … Read more