Suzy threw out one of my favorite T-shirts yesterday. If she has her way a couple of old golf shirts will meet the same fate. Just when my clothes start to get comfortable, add a few holes, and get a little threadbare, she thinks they need a new home. Friends are like clothes. New ones…
Abundance
“For all of them contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had all, she had to live on.” Mark 12:38-44 Many read this passage as being about giving to the Church. The story of the widow’s offering certainly lends itself to that interpretation. But, Jesus…
Rest Thee
Grandma Danny’s life was not all peaches and cream. She spent weeks and months in the hospital with her son, Suzy’s Uncle Wayne, who was a brilliant chemist but struck with crippling and life-threatening arthritis. Danny tucked in her Bible a letter from her daughter Admyth who thought the verses of a song Suzy’s Mom…
Prayer/Meditation
Whether your morning quiet time takes the form of Prayer or Meditation it offers multiple benefits. We turn aside from an unquiet world, seeking rest for our spirit, and light for our thoughts. We bring our wounds to be healed, our hopes to be renewed, and our better selves to be quickened. We are lifted…
A Test Of Friendship
Friendship is a state of mind on which transient circumstances, good or bad, have no effect. It’s a difficult to explain combination of admiration, affection, loyalty, and understanding — a kind of spiritual magnetism that draws one person to another. If it is real friendship “shocks of adversity” only intensify it, only make a person…