“In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn’t do well enough on their SATs to write their own rules. Only the weak and the feeble and the young—-well,… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn’t do well enough on… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve been cursed with bright,… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“I can’t hear God’s voice for my kids, but I can watch and listen and pray and adjust and try not to screw up… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we will pray… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then,… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go back—deep down… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“When God says hold up, wait, pray, it’s not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.” — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
“Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?” — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
