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“Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek...

“Big deal, I’m used to dust.” Erma Bombeck suggested these words would be her epitaph. In her comedic genius, she spoke about life...

The following poem, A Small Prayer in a Hard Wind by Christian Wiman, speaks a truth to me. As through a long-abandoned half-standing...

The image holds firm in my heart. When a deep breath in my schedule allows me indulgence, my mind takes me to a simpler, more innocent...

Not too long ago, someone suggested to me there must be a prerequisite condition in someone to receive God’s grace. The statement was not...

The two men stood stoic. Each looked at the other knowing the path the other would choose. Silent, they departed. Years passed. The two...

The clock said 5:30 a.m. My body said it was too early. Easing into this quiet morning, the Barred owl hooted. Hearing the distinct, “Who...

There are some who like to blame God for evil in the world. I do not think He is the cause because I do not think Him capable of it. I do...

Dad never said much. He was not a silent man, but fathers and sons seldom communicate in words. When exercising words, he did say to me,...

Mixed images and emotions pervade my memories from Junior High. Awkward is an understatement as I remember those emerging pimpling days....

Are you wearing a logo? I’ll bet you are. And what does it represent? A company, a club, an organization and perhaps wearing it makes...

Searching the other day, not for anything lost, but for something I could not find, I slowed enough to allow clarity to answer my search....

It's a long and rugged road And we don't know where it's headed But we know it's going to get us where we're going And when we find what...

Truth rains its words On whitewashed tombs, While nonetheless aware, The other cheek turns away In silent crimsoned shame.   “Then He...

I’ll get right to the point. Are you bewildered right now? Look around, observe, you might ask—where is God? To the least faithful, to...

God is a no longer God. In this faith journey in which we have engaged and set upon our hearts a sincere desire to know God, to ask of...

It didn’t happen overnight, but I began to hear those words press air I thought never would. Phrases like, “Well, when I was your age” or...

“ The answer to that nonsense is that, if what you call your ‘faith’ in Christ does not involve taking the slightest notice of what He...

“Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like...

I once met a man who seemed to me Someone detached from care. And envy’s dream I dreamed for me To live my life as him. “I think...