Does your life sometimes feel like a valley of dry bones? When you look at the long-time trial, does it seem dead and dry? And you’ve kind of gotten used to it looking that way? Hope seems far away – like a mirage in the desert? Believe me – I get it.

For as long as Dana and I have known each other, whenever we get to a situation that's tricky or that has a rather large exclamation point to it – we refer to it as “the Big Fig Newton”.

Have you ever watched the sitcom, Newhart? Stephanie is a character on that show. She’s a spoiled rich girl, who finds herself in need of a job, and becomes a maid for a small Vermont inn. And on the occasions when she realized she’d done something wrong . . .

Do you ever feel like you’re “out of step” with God? I know I do. Sometimes I feel like I’m running ahead and just waiting for God to open doors. Other times, I find myself picking up rocks, . . .

Life is full of choices: snooze button or get up; what to wear; caff or decaf; do I want fries with that . . . and those are the easy ones.

At the risk of being too personal, and not at all professional – I am going to give you a glimpse into my hedge. The remainder of this blog is my actual conversation between Father and child.