You Can

  “My Child, never forget the things I have taught you.”  Proverbs 3:1a.       How and when do we grieve?  Should I be down-trodden, wear burlap cloth and remove…

Read More

One Step at a Time

The Lord directs the steps of the godly.  He delights in every detail of their lives. Psalm 37:23   Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light…

Read More

Getting Political

On NPR’s “Fresh Air,” aired May 19, 2022, host Dave Davies related this story, “In 2020, Daniel Darling, an evangelical author and spokesman for the National Religious Broadcasters, spoke out in…

Read More

The Gift of Silence

“Be still and know that I am God.” Ps. 46:10 According to Meister Eckhart, a fourteenth-century Dominican mystic, “There is nothing so much like God as silence.” Several years ago,…

Read More

I Am With You

I don’t know about you, but I find that I sometimes struggle with my faith. I don’t feel that I am a bad Christian or anything. There are just times…

Read More

Balancing May

As spring progresses, the world starts blooming and greening and growing! The tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and iris provide color and natural beauty. The hostas and grass seem to grow while…

Read More

Becoming a Moving Prayer

“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”  1 Thessalonians 5:16-18   Last time, we talked about the three…

Read More

Complaint and Hope

“How long, Lord, must I call for help,     but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!”     but you do not save? Why do you make me look at…

Read More

Spring Has Arrived!

Shout with joy to the Lord,all the earth! Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy. Psalm 100:1-2 Spring has arrived and with it comes an invitation…

Read More