Danny, our 5-year-old, is a little guy — with some very big feelings. On a daily basis, he tries to articulate how much he loves me, often using comparisons like,…
A basic principle of Love First: Children can relieve the suffering of others. Use this Advent season to continue – or start – to develop a culture of empathy and compassion in your…
In the wake of the most recent mass shooting, this time at a nightclub in Thousand Oaks, California, I find myself broken hearted. Again. With no time to heal since…
We’ve been talking a lot about courage in our Sunday school program. Like what it is, what it looks like, and why it’s important. When I asked the children to…
Like most people, God has always been ‘he’ in our house. It’s just what we learned, what feels comfortable, and how we’ve always done it. Every once and awhile we…
If you’ve ever spent any time with our family, you might already know this: the Potts kids are super comfortable talking about death. Unsettlingly so, if you ask me. Sam routinely hands…
We Pottses love to celebrate. Whether it’s piano recitals, first or last days of school, finishing a project, cleaning out a closet, catching up on laundry, or finally getting rid of…
Matt and I don’t fight that often. For that, I’m grateful. (That’s not to say that we don’t get on each other’s nerves sometimes!) During our engagement, we had one big…
I’m not sure how I landed at St. Barnabas as the Director of Children’s Ministries. My spiritual path and my vocational pursuit rarely—if ever—overlap. And the paths for both have…
