Righteousness is a Gift

Alison Ritch tells the following story. My four-year-old, first-born daughter is — in typical first-born fashion — an agonizer. She agonizes over decisions, weighing her options, sometimes paralyzed by the fear of making a choice that will rule something out. A typical example might go like this: She decides she wants juice instead of the water in her glass at breakfast. She comes into the…