Gnarled Branches on Your Family Tree What kind of family legacy did you inherit? Are your parents and grandparents examples of godly men and women, or are you burdened with a discouraging legacy? Holidays such as Mother’s Day or Father’s Day can stir up tender...
Dayenu – That is Enough! This has been a significant week on several levels. From a Good Friday presentation of “Messiah in the Passover” to rejoicing in the resurrection of Christ on Sunday, to celebrating a personal milestone later in the week. A common...
Random Acts of Kindness Have you noticed that kindness seems more significant when it occurs randomly? Maybe it’s due to expectations. We expect people we know to be kind or we wouldn’t continue the relationship. Or maybe we expect others to be kind because we...
National Umbrella Day Brolly, gamp, bumbershoot—all British terms for something better known to most of us as the lowly, yet invaluable umbrella. Invaluable in our moment of need, yet lowly only minutes later. We take it with us for protection from the...
Not Enough Time? It happened again. I lost a whole month. Four-and-a-half weeks. Thirty-one days. More than seven hundred hours. January ran away from home. It’s as if the month was never here. One minute Christmas decorations filled store shelves and the next...
One Word: From Wait to Present Time for my new 2023 “one word.” For 2022, my “one word” was wait, something I’ve never done well. So it did not surprise me when God gave me that word. For the past several years, my focus word has not been something easy to live...
Adapt or Transform? I've heard it said that when you move from a cold climate to a warm one, your blood “thins.” After the recent cold snap, I can attest to the fact that fifty degrees in New York feels warm, but after more than twenty years in south Florida,...
Advent: Prince of Peace Four weeks of Advent – four names of the Christ-child from the prophet Isaiah. “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,...
Advent: The Everlasting Father Father. A title that may evoke joy or sadness, blame or gratitude, depending on your personal experience. One thing it does not evoke is indifference. Four weeks of Advent—four names of the Christ-child from the prophet Isaiah....
Advent: Mighty God Soft, adorable bundles of joy. Who doesn’t love sweet little babies? Vulnerable, helpless, and defenseless. They bring out the best in us, don’t they? Our instinct is to cuddle and protect them. To keep them safe and give them everything they...
Does the World Know What We Are Against or For? The Christian community has taken a stand on the issue of...
Gratitude Prompts There’s a saying traveling the internet these days that goes something like this: “What if...
Be the One, Not the Nine We’ve all heard the advice: Don’t buck the crowd. Go along to get along. Don’t rock...