I taught my sons to fly a kite the other day. It was a beautiful Sunday morning and the wind was just right for it. They are old enough to know how a kite should fly but not old enough to have flown a kite themselves, which means that their understanding of how to fly a kite was completely wrong.
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Kirsten Sanders
Kirsten Sanders (PhD, Emory University) is a writer and theologian. She lives with her family in Massachusetts.