Category: daughters
Posted on June 28, 2014
by Leo
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Claire is on my lap. We are in an doctor’s waiting room. She cries and screams because she is in pain. I hold her on my lap soothing her, living with her pain. It hurts me more emotionally and spiritually than it does her… Continue Reading “Daddy’s Lap”
Category: children, daughters, fatherhood, God, humility, Pain, Sick kids, SufferingTags: Fatherhood, God, Pain, sick kids, Suffering
Posted on May 31, 2014
by Leo
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A few nights ago my wife and I had dinner with friends. We came home looking forward to settling down and getting ready for bed. My settling down was interrupted by my wife’s screaming voice raised in alarm and panic, “Claire fell down the… Continue Reading “The Fall”
Category: children, daughters, falling, fatherhood, home and family, keeping kids safe at home, Parenting, UncategorizedTags: falling down the stairs, Fatherhood, keeping kids safe at home, parenting
Posted on May 7, 2014
by Leo
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As a Youth Minister I have come to see that 95% of the issues many kids have are in one way or another related to daddy issues. Whenever I have a kid come to me about drugs, behavioral, social, spiritual, sexual and or emotional… Continue Reading “A New Tradition”
Category: children, daughters, enjoying the moment, fatherhood, Parenting, youth ministryTags: Children, dates, Fatherhood, fathers, new traditions, parenting
Posted on April 19, 2014
by Leo
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Yesterday I finished putting together a boxed perimeter around my daughter’s little playground area in our yard. It consisted of a couple of 6x6x12, and other similar sized beams and some metal stakes to connect them. Eventually we will fill it with rubber mulch… Continue Reading “Beams”
Category: children, daughters, fatherhood, God, UncategorizedTags: building, Cross, Fatherhood, Good Friday, holy week, metal stakes, playground, wooden beams
Posted on April 9, 2014
by Leo
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It is hard to believe, but my daughter turned a year old two weeks ago. I blinked and she had teeth, hair, and now she moves. Everyone says that the first year flies by and everyone is right. My wife and I had a… Continue Reading “Cor Meum”
Category: children, daughters, fatherhood, growing up, home and family, husband and wife, ParentingTags: Children, Claire, family life, Fatherhood, kids growing up, parenting
Posted on March 16, 2014
by Leo
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A little something I came up with after taking this picture of my daughter. Not a Shakespeare sonnet, but its from the heart. Her Smile It is like a light that pierces my darkest parts. A force that in its gentleness moves and… Continue Reading “Her Smile”
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