How do you teach children about suffering – the suffering they will go through, and that Christ went through on Good Friday?

The story of a family that made a harp: “Everyone helped, scrambling around in the lumber shed for lengths of cherry wood, sanding, gluing, painting, and staining. Oh, and tuning!”

A formidable young man stayed with our family on a summer break from the Ivy League. He had never, to anyone’s knowledge, lost an argument. Until he met my brother Duane, that is – my brother, who had never learned to speak...