Hope When You’re Stretched Thin
The night before my first trip into the little village in Afghanistan that became my home for four years, as I prayed, terrified, my reading contained these words: “Arise, my…
How to keep shame from winning
One of the challenges with listening to God’s heartbeat is that things keep getting in the way. Sometimes it’s things outside me; I know from my time as a doctor…
Abide in Me: The one word for our time
“During the life of Jesus on earth, the word He chiefly used when speaking of the relations of the disciples to Himself was: ‘Follow me.’ When about to leave for…