Arise, Oh God, and rule the earth, for you shall take all nations for your own. — Psalm 82:8. My children are taking the state of the world and especially the virus better than I. Each in their own way have surrendered to the fact that we are all impacted by the virus and complaining or…
Lapping Waves of Grief
“Each that we lose takes part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.” — Emily Dickinson. Often I run across someone else’s writings that need nothing but repeating. Today is one I just had to share: “I too have waded through the tide…
Why Do You?
Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? — Luke 5:30. We hear the same type of questions twenty centuries later. We still talk in terms of “them,” “those people,” and “not our kind.” Labels and quick judgments are made only worse by social media. Despite God’s parables about lost sheep, lost coins,…
Out of Work
The hardest work in the world is being out of work. — Whitney Young. I know this feeling that Young describes. I hope you never do. Unfortunately many of your friends and neighbors these days are experiencing the darkness that being unemployed brings. We as a society, a country, and as humans owe it to…
Have You Understood
Have you understood all this? — Matthew 13:51. We profess to understand the mysteries of God, but we really don’t. A friend taught me a while back is that what we really need to do is; “Delete our need for understanding.” So much happens to the world and us that is beyond understanding beyond logic or…