CoffeeBreak With The Word

On this Monday morning,  I woke up with a stormy soul, troubled about the present world in which I live, seeing only sadness when I looked back, and feeling the unknowns of the future stalking me like wolves at the edge of my consciousness.  In those moments my first response is prayer. It would be […]

Turning people into objects, into things to be used, rather than beings made in the image of God, happens too often and it has awful consequences. Nations do it when they go to war. The ‘other side’ is turned into a country of caricatures, de-humanized with a series of demeaning adjectives. It is easier to […]

Priorities. We all have them, even if we do not think about them. There are those things that come first in our lives, things we treasure, people we prioritize. If our priorities are in order, we will live better lives. If we are putting our efforts into secondary issues which do not merit the place […]

Do you know where the a popular adage,  “the handwriting on the wall,” comes from?  The phrase describes the evidence that accumulates that should convince a person that something bad is going to happen, that they are acting in a way that will produce negative results.  It used like this.  “He should have known that […]

I love those stories that tell about someone overcoming hardship, turning trouble into triumph. I cheer for underdogs, love when the little guy wins, get misty-eyed when love is sweet!  I am also a realist who knows only too well that our world is not always fair, that good guys do not always finish first. […]

We look towards the future and sometimes it’s like a dense bank of fog. We may ask, “Lord, are you still in charge? Are we dangerously adrift on the currents of time?”   It may seem so, but let me affirm what I know, by faith, to be true: He IS Lord.He IS our Savior.He IS […]

For the last week the world has watched the elaborate ceremony surrounding the death of Queen Elizabeth. It’s fascinating to watch tradition and see the real human pain that peeks out here and there, a tear on the cheek of a Prince’s face, a drawn look of genuine grief momentarily in view. Death is the […]

The words to a newer song, Hymn of Heaven, keep echoing in my mind. “How I long to breathe the air of Heaven, Where pain is gone and mercy fills the streets.”  Before you jump to any conclusions, let me say – I am not sick nor depressed! I am just thinking about “home.”    […]

In 1981  a game was released that became a national sensation, one I played with friends often well into the night 35 years ago. It was called Trivial Pursuit. I do not know if it is still around but it sure was fun back then. The goal was to answer enough questions about ‘trivia’ to […]

Motives can be a hard to discern, even in ourselves, but they matter; they really do!  Last week I had the opportunity to care for a homeless person, finding housing for her, providing some resources. As it turned out, she took advantage of my kindness, as she has done to others, I found out.  My […]