To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Eccl. 3:1 I can’t read this verse without starting the sing the Pete Seeger song Turn, Turn, Turn made famous by The Byrds. I’ve given you the link in case you want to sing along. If anything the entire book of Ecclesiastes fills…
Month: November 2016
Grateful, Gracious, and Thankful
When good things happen it’s easy to be grateful, thankful, and gracious. Not so when our world collapses. Being grateful in dark times takes hard spiritual work, but it is necessary and if accomplished is even more rewarding. For if we are only thankful during the good times we are incomplete, learning gratitude during the…
Telling The Truth
Thomas Wolfe said, “Telling the truth is a pretty hard thing.” That’s an understatement. So often we fear telling the truth. We can get in trouble? Somebody might get mad. Bad things could happen. It is fear that drives us away from telling the truth. Telling the truth requires faith — Faith in your friends,…
Grief, Loss, and Love.
My daughter and I heard Glennon Doyle Melton talk Friday night. Besides having the wonderful experience of being practically the only man in a room full of one thousand women, I enjoyed myself thoroughly and know what it must feel to be in the audience during a taping of Oprah. She was asked a question…
Expressing Feelings
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.” — Benjamin Disraeli In my day, little boys were taught to never cry. We were called a “cry baby” at the first sign of a tear. As we we got older, we were told to hold our feelings to ourselves. A gentleman never…