“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, shiny object disease and we don’t want a cure. Not now. Not till we get our… — 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 whatever He has planned for their lives. And although I can’t make them listen to God, or even want to, I can plant enough seeds to swing the world in their favor. That said, as I… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share
“We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we will pray for them (we don’t) and our puddle-eyed children that their goldfish have gone to heaven (doubtful). When we lose our jobs we want to take comfort in the idea that God doesn’t give us more than… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share
“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
