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I’m 30, and My Room is Still a Mess

June 2, 2014 by Tony 2 Comments

birthday

My son’s room is like a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Toppled block buildings and crayon-wrapper debris lay atop overturned die-cast cars and plastic little-people corpses. Blankets have tumbled to the floor like a California mud-slide. I don’t want to think about the refugees hastily rushed under the bed.

I’ve seen this before, in my own room, years ago. I can still hear my mom hollering at me to clean up my act. I can remember those times when she would look at me, exasperated, and say: “Someday, you’ll be grown up. You’re going to have a kid, and you’ll understand.”

Mom didn’t live long enough to see my kids, or to hear me apologize to her for all the grief I put her through. But she was right. I’m all grown up, and I’m beginning to understand.

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A Manufactured Reminder

May 23, 2014 by Tony Leave a Comment

dad

On my desk there spins a block of glass, glowing blue, then green, then red. Inside the glass is the ghostly shape of a tree and words that you might find in a greeting card:

DAD

You are a
source of strength,
a teacher and a guide.
You are the one
that’s looked up to,
with loving trust
and pride.

It’s one of those sentimental, one-size-fits-all gifts that you find in the hallways of shopping malls in a kiosk next to Cell-Phone City and the Piercing Pagoda. It was a Christmas gift from my children, which means that it was a Christmas gift from my wife.

When I opened it, I was happy. Not because it was the gift I had secretly always wanted, but because of the look on my kids’ faces as I opened it. They were happy to see their daddy open his present, but were absolutely thrilled that they’d made it so long without letting slip what it would be.

My wife asked the question a bit hesitantly, “Do you like it?”Continue Reading

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Tony serves Missouri Baptists as webmaster, and is a part of a Karis Church planting team in Jefferson City, MO. He is blessed daily by his wife, Brianna, and two children. Read More…

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