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My daughter Lively is four, almost five. This morning she was so excited to wear her little heart-shaped glasses—and as she put them on, they snapped right down the middle. To her, in that moment, the whole world caved in. What she can’t see from her vantage point is that her dad knows exactly where

The parable of the talents is one most of us think we’ve figured out—a story about using your abilities. But look closer and it’s really about fear. One Sunday we ran a quick roll call of phobias: heights, spiders, tight spaces, public speaking, clowns. Hands went up all over the room. And here’s the thing

I actually like watching commercials—the creativity, the little stories. But the ones that get me every time are the prescription drug ads, where they spend the first fifteen seconds selling you the miracle and the last fifteen rattling off side effects that sound worse than whatever you started with. Dizziness. Seizures. And somewhere in that

A few years back, my wife called into a radio contest just for kicks—and won. Front-row tickets, backstage passes, the whole thing. Suddenly I’m standing there meeting people I’d only ever seen on a screen, not knowing how to dress, not knowing where to put my hands, absolutely certain I did not belong. I’m a