In Biblical times, your name was about you, your parent’s hopes for you, where you were born. It was more than a collection of letters that appeared on your drivers license. Sometimes your name changed when God revealed a new… Continue reading

Ever feel invisible, unseen, unknown?  Sometimes we feel like a gear in a vast machine, valued only for what we do, not who we are. When someone takes time to actually listen, remembers our name – it can make us… Continue reading

Life teaches that performance earns reward, generally. We get report cards in elementary school that measure our accomplishments with a grade. Sometimes we confuse our grade with our personal worth, but that’s another subject. Unless we have been duped by… Continue reading

Inside me there are two natures that wrestle for mastery.  Because of the new life of the Spirit I am capable of rising to heights of faith, inspired to love sacrificially, filled with profound awe for the Eternal God. Because… Continue reading

One of the funny stories in our family regards the emerging independence of my youngest daughter. When she was a toddler and we were getting ready to go out to play on a snowy day, we found her crying in… Continue reading

The man, who obviously loves his kids, pulled to the side of the highway, fed up with the bickering and fighting in the backseat of the car. What parent has not come to one of those exasperating moments when they… Continue reading

Though I am not much for physical exercise, I have good memories of evening walks with my wife. After dinner, she would insist that I put on my walking shoes. As we meandered through our neighborhood, often holding hands, we… Continue reading

From my privileged place, in my comfortable warm home where the water is clean and plentiful, the food rich and nourishing, in my social position which enjoys an abundance of friends and family- it quite easy to close my eyes… Continue reading

Thinking that life would be better – “If only I …” had a different job, were as smart as she is, lived in the city – is a thought that we all think, sometime, isn’t it? Following closely behind those… Continue reading

We are all familiar with two powerful emotions – guilt and shame. Guilt serves us well when we do wrong because it motivates us to seek change, to make things right. Shame, on the other hand, is generally a terribly… Continue reading