I came across the phrase “the Promise of Spring” the other day. What a wonderful phrase and image it provokes. Each year about this time the first signs of spring arrive. Trees bud, flowers emerge, the grass turns green, and an afternoon thunderstorm clears the air. We know that the cold and darkness of winter…
Tag: Webb Hubbell
Palm Sunday
Although some athletes take taunting to extremes, it can be an effective strategy. It can throw an opponent of his or her game. Challenging authority is a form of taunting with the same effect. I love the scene in the movie Gandhi where they “walked to the sea and made salt.” Gandhi was challenging authority in a…
Lifted The Lowly
He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly. — Luke 1:52. I am always drawn to the message in the Gospels about how Christ turns our world view on its end. The powerful will be brought down, the lowly will be elevated, and all the wonderful paradoxes contained in the…
Who Sinned
His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? — John 9:2. Who sinned? Who’s at fault? Who’s to blame? Questions we hear everyday from newscasters, reporters, members of the legislature, and too many of us ordinary people. It might be okay if the purpose of the questions…
Increments
Did your father mark your growth on the doorsill, or somewhere in the house? Mine did, until I shot up more than eight inches in less than a year and suddenly was taller than him. But before my growth spurt, it seemed that I would never grow, but yet I did in what seemed slow…