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Some of these sentences were written downstairs before the kids woke. Others were scribbled on a pad when I should have been clearing the table. Some were typed at the office while I snoozed a couple of client emails, and some were hastily tapped out on my phone in the middle of a backyard fire conversation among friends sharing our mutual parenting struggles. But all of them come from the fray, and all of them are much more scuffed up by failure than they are polished up by success. I find I am drawn to write about things I struggle with, and habits of the household are no different. I’m qualified to write about this stuff not because I’m so good at it, I’m qualified to write about this stuff because I need it so badly.
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Justin Whitmel Earley (Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms)