How to find hope in emptiness
It’s early when I walk past the playground, and the swings hang empty, waiting. No one plays on the slide. There’s a stillness here that could just be the calm…
Good News for Burden Bearers
We all start life carried—a few pounds of humanity borne within the body of another. And our current life depends on God's loving willingness to bear us since then (Isaiah…
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…