The class divide over screen time: O. Alan Noble notes that children in lower class households spend twice as much time per day on screens. He explains the five reasons why he believes this is the cases. For instance, “The reality is that the less income you have, the less resources you have to care for your children. This includes having less income to spend on childcare, but also less emotional and mental bandwidth to care for your children because of the burdens poverty places upon you.”
Life will not get easier: Stephen Witmer begins, “There’s a lie we all want to believe — even against all available evidence. It trades on our God-given capacity for hope. It tempts even those with impeccable theology. It lures us in and then leaves us in the lurch. It goes like this: ‘Life will get easier if I just make it past this current challenge.’”
We live in a mnemonic world: Paul David Tripp says, “Because of our forgetfulness, God has created the physical world to be mnemonic, to help us daily remember that we are not alone, that we are not at the center, that life is not primarily about us, and that there is a grander story than the little stories of our individual lives.”
God’s surprising wisdom in waiting: Dave Harvey reflects, “Close your eyes, step into the river and grasp a handful of rocks. You can tell the new arrivals from those that have laid silently waiting. The new arrivals are rough with edges and sharp points. The Old Guard is smooth; time and water have worn away their rough exterior, revealing a polished, beautiful stone.”
Want to know the most dangerous animal in the world? It’s small but deadly.

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