Alva Review-Courier -

Last evening I was watching television, specifically a movie showing a father driving his family home after a long weekend, and upon getting home late at night the father carried his young daughter in and tucked her into bed. It wouldn’t come as a surprise for anyone who knows me very well that I had to stop and relive those memories of me doing the very same thing when our children were younger. And then wondering what positive lessons I could find in what I just saw.

As I sat there basking in those sweet memories, it dawned on me just how long it had been since I carried my children to bed....