Mayah Louise Wieck, y’all. Mom and daughter are doing great!

When Pompeii was destroyed, the meaning of Pompeii remained. John M. Frame. “The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God”. 1987. pgs 34-35. Footnote. A few weeks ago, I posted a letter to my daughter who will be born next week, so I have the act of naming a person in my head as I read […]

To My Daughter at the Approach of Her Birth

Sunday, October 6, 2013 Dear Mayah Louise Wieck, Your mother and brothers and I will call your name daily and more commonly than we take bread. And we’ll pronounce it with every inflection of emotion one can imagine, and some that we can’t yet because we haven’t met you and those emotions haven’t even begun to resonate […]

Fathers become traditionalists who think that their way is the only way and their battles the only battles worth fighting. Fathers are tempted to keep their hands on the levers after they have become too feeble to be of much use. Other fathers slip away into a premature obsolescence, a retirement that is nothing more […]