Milestone birthdays have a way of making us pause to take an aerial view of the journey and look back on the important. We tend to wonder what mattered most to make it matter at all. A few weeks ago, I celebrated a “three score and ten plus” birthday. What mattered most was seated around the table --- my children and grands. … [Read more...]
Remain
As the calendar rips through the holy season of Easter, I camp in the landscape of it all that’s told in the gospels. In the Bible. We see male followers who gather at the table for a Last Supper, get sleepy in a Garden, and female followers who gather at the foot of the cross – until the end. That’s where we see a mix of … [Read more...]
Living Lent
Many of us are trying to catch a breath after the past few years of a pandemic that has shattered and taken lives. The Lenten season comes during a time of war that points to our own personal war. When hope appears to weaken with the headlines of the world and the headlines of our story, we need to turn to the only One who can … [Read more...]
Yet, I will . . .
It all runs together but never runs out. The Word, I mean. It blends and builds and brings life to dead places. We’re in the book of Samuel on Thursday mornings in our Precept class, walking through the life of David as he triumphs and trips. I studied this book over twenty years ago and yet it fits life even more so … [Read more...]
Surviving Impossibles
Some of us say we believe because we have reason to - and proof. Until we don’t. Then it’s easier to hold onto the edge of logic that says the situation probably won’t change. Because it hasn’t. So, it must be too hard for God, it must not be His will, it must be or not be . . whatever. Faith sees the invisible, believes … [Read more...]
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