Where God just might come nearest
Is there a place you've experienced as a "thin place," a place where heaven seems especially close to earth, and God, though everywhere present, somehow seems nearer? Most often I've…
Let grace be grace: Learning to see
I watch the widow place two tiny coins in the offering plate. Her neighbors’ noses are in the air as they let their handfuls of change drop in, noisily burying…
When you have nothing to give
As I bring my gift, shame sometimes still creeps in, taunting me with its jabs, "It's such a poor gift. Can't you find anything better than this to offer a…