Daily observations about following Jesus
I’m finding, as I age and as I multi-task and multi-think and multi-network, that I remember less and less. This is a pain. Sometimes, of course, it’s not critical to my work. For example, I forgot where Argentina was until I made a graphic for my boss. Who will be in Argentina next week. But […]
Read More…A hungry baby is a terrible thing. First comes whimpering. Then crying. Then a screaming that consumes the child’s whole body. Long before danger of starvation, the child makes sure that there is no one within earshot that has any question about a need for food. That same child, a bottle or a breast later, is content. No […]
Read More…You are waiting. You aren’t sure what’s happening. You can’t see to the end of today. And you are waiting. It reminds you of that summer before your senior year of high school, the summer that you worked third shift. All alone in the building, all alone working on the computer. Sometimes alone is okay. […]
Read More…Responding to this survey, one of you asked: What do you do if you don’t like to go to church on Sunday mornings? What do you do if every time you try and go to church the service makes you cry so you get embarrassed and don’t go back? What do you do if someone […]
Read More…It happens all the time in songs (and in stories.) For the first two verses, everything is bad. And then the hero comes, the story turns, the cavalry arrives, the light dawns. We love to read these stories, to sing these songs, because they give us hope. The first two verses are exactly where we […]
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