We have some amazing, amazing friends in Sierra Leone.
Karoline’s latest newsletter included this:
“You cannot step on a dead man’s toes.” I love that expression.
Once we have decided to follow Jesus…we are to be “dead to ourselves and alive in Christ”…
…but most of my worries, my being offended, my standing up for my rights, my choices in what I do and what I possess, it reflects where my treasures and securities really lie.
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I sort of wish I never read that. It’s been running through my head now and I’ve been trying to use it as a bit of a filter. When I am hurt (which I get) or offended (which also happens)–I am sending it first to do battle with “You cannot step on a dead man’s toes.”
Without fail, self-pity or anger or entitlement don’t win that one.
Can’t step on a dead man’s toes.
Geez.
That changes things.
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In other random news:
–The learning disabilities we have in this family are kicking my butt. I have never given credit to how incredibly hard that is for kids and their parents and their teachers. There is something so heartbreaking when “reading time” ends with both of us in near tears.
—Do you have 10 seconds to cast a quick vote for The Adventure Project on Chase Giving? Serious grant money at stake and we think we can get some of it if we get 1000 votes today and tomorrow. It’s so easy. And pretty fun. 
Thank you!!!
SO there you go. Dead man’s toes, dyslexia, and grant money. Happy Monday!!
Jody- sounds like your “reading time” mirrors our “writing time”. The things I have always taken for granted have come back to haunt me. (And I’m right there with you on the tears, too.)
Jody, we didn’t know about my big girl’s dyslexia until she was in 4th grade (wish I’d known when she was learning to read!). We were referred to a book called The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald Davis, and it was really helpful to us. I don’t know that I buy everything in there, I never do, but the orientation and reorientation exercises, specifically, were helpful.
(And the tears, so many tears. Now she knows it’s kind of a super power, but it means she has to work harder at some things. I think just knowing helped a lot.)