For Your Weekend: Be Prepared

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 3:1–12 

On my daughter’s eighth birthday, we invited her entire class to our home for pizza and cake. As I blew up balloons and hung streamers, my husband’s contribution to getting the house “party ready” was deep cleaning the front hall closet just thirty minutes before our little guests arrived. He completely emptied it; coats, brooms, an old trunk, a jogger stroller, sports equipment, and power tools, creating a massive pile of junk in the front e...