Look Up or Give Up? Some of us are ready to give up. Feelings of hopelessness are pervasive as we wonder how much longer this health crisis will continue. And in the face of conflicting predictions, we wonder if we’ll have the stamina to wait it out. Masks....
When It Doesn’t Seem Like God is Good
When It Doesn't Seem Like God is Good Social media often receives a bad rap for being a timewaster. But during the current viral pandemic in which many of us are feeling isolated, platforms such as Facebook provide a helpful way to stay connected. And a recent...
The Power of One
Have you heard the African proverb that says: “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito.” Or perhaps you recall the story of Mary Mallon, nicknamed Typhoid Mary. She was documented as the individual who caused the...
COVID-19 and God’s Sovereignty
Our busy culture has birthed an industry of time management experts offering tools and tips to be more effective. One of the first things they advise is for clients to reject interruptions. But that’s difficult to do when our whole world has just been interrupted....
A Perfect Storm: Bringing Out the Best or Worst in Us
A Perfect Storm: Bringing Out the Best or Worst in Us Stress can bring out the worst in people. Financial stress. Health-related stress. Stress due to uncertainty. Stress caused by interruptions. And when a global health crisis of an undetermined duration...
Should Christians Seek Good Luck?
We’re into the month of St. Patrick’s Day and four-leaf clovers. The month when green milk is fun (maybe not). And the month when everyone is a wee bit Irish because we’re hoping for a bit o’ luck to rub off on us. Luck. We hope for good luck and bemoan bad luck. But...
Believing a Lie
Stories are told of children traumatized when they learn Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny are not real. But what about the lies we believe as adults? Some are obvious, some not so much. I recently read an article about a woman who watered a plant for two years before...
Spinning Gold into Straw Through Wrong Motives
Do you remember the ancient fairy tale about Rumpelstiltskin? A king locked the miller’s daughter in a tower, requiring her to spin straw into gold or lose her life. But each night, a strange little man entered her room and, for a price, spun the straw into gold for...
Mentor and Mentee
Scientists say it’s possible for us to see the light of a distant star, farther from the earth than our own sun, after that star has died. The star might be long gone, but we may still benefit from its light gleaming in the heavens today. Mentee This past week I lost...
Nine Misconceptions of Love
We want love. We need love. More than one thousand song titles contain the word love. We write books about it. Recite poems. We chase it and sing about it and fall for misconceptions of love. And no matter what we do, we can’t get enough. Maybe that’s because we don’t...
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