Grace begins within.
Two daily journals written from opposite sides of the same marriage — one from inside a prison, one from a kitchen table at home — and a small collection of faith-based goods made to be carried through the season you are in.
He writes from the inside about fatherhood at a distance, accountability and slow repentance. She writes from the outside about parenting through disruption, marriage across separation and holding the fort. Same day. Same family. Two rooms.
From the Inside
Reflections on fatherhood across distance, spiritual growth in confinement, honest accountability, and the ordinary discipline of becoming a man his children can describe without shame.
From the Outside
Reflections on raising a family alone on the outside, marriage across separation, faith in uncertainty, and the quiet resilience of a household that keeps going.
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Both authors write the same week. Read either column, or read them side by side.
The Weight of a Tuesday
Nothing happened today, and that is exactly the thing I have had to learn to survive — the ordinary Tuesday with no visit on it.
Letters My Son Will Read Later
I write to him every week knowing he is too young to understand most of it. The letters are not really for the boy. They are for the man.
Finding Peace in an Empty Living Room
The children go to bed at eight and the house gets so quiet I can hear the refrigerator. That hour used to frighten me. It has become a sanctuary.
Raising Them Honest
I decided early that we would not build our family on a story we had to keep straight. The truth, told gently and at the right age, has been kinder than any story I could have invented.
The Weight of a Tuesday
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”
PSALM 51:10Nothing happened today, and that is exactly the thing I have had to learn to survive — the ordinary Tuesday with no visit on it.
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