I read recently that a preacher was claiming the coronavirus is a result of God being angry at us. I won’t dignify the preacher further by telling why he thinks God is angry at us. What I will say is that the preacher doesn’t have a clue about the nature of God. God is about…
Reach Out And Touch Someone
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. — Gandhi. If any thing has been true in the last few weeks is that we are all dependent on each other. Even a lot of our depression is caused by our lack of social contact with each other. Jesus spent a…
Stop The Presses
Stop the presses! I felt that way this morning when I read the morning’s papers. “Please, no more bad news,” I said to myself. After breakfast, I went into my morning’s meditation with the question, “When will it all end?” But soon calm began to creep up from my toes, and I thought of the…
Season of Prayer
Suzy commented yesterday that if God were going to intervene, now would be a good time. Her words reminded me that Lent is a season of prayer, and that I needed to up my prayer time. There must be a thousand ways to pray. Some of my favorites are “centering prayer,” opening the bible and…
Be Not Anxious
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. — Matthew 6:34. I have had a few anxious nights lately, and I woke this morning anxious. Not about myself, I’m ensconced in my house. Suzy won’t even let me go to the…