“I’m afraid that he won’t know me in heaven.” The woman in front of me was shaking as she talked. Their marriage had been good. Her life had been hard. She was clinging to his life even as it was being measured in hours at most. If I had to guess, she had heard the […]

God- It’s so easy to lose track. Of our plans, of our direction, of you. One fall, one fracture, one hospital stay, one cold, two bad nights of sleep and the lists we had and the projects we were working toward get lost. It’s hard to keep our quiet routines as our time is tied […]

Last week, we went to a Terrible Orchestra concert. That’s their name. The Fort Wayne Terrible Orchestra. In Fort Wayne, there is a Philharmonic Orchestra, there is a community band and a community orchestra and an American Legion band and a couple other groups. And then there is the terrible orchestra. The conductor is a […]

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Jesus went up into the hills near the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. He spent the night talking with God, as he often did. And after that conversation, he called together the core of the people who had been following him. Maybe 100 people scattered out in little groups, maybe with campfires, sleeping under […]