Listening to television, I heard two misleading ads: Opportunity is enjoying a second cup of coffee. We bought a generator and now have control over our lives. Then I read a misleading headline from the Dallas Morning News Editorial: “Another quake, and another...
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Base Ingratitudes
A recent Lenten meditation “inspired” my most recent painting. (Art & Theology: Lent, Day 20.) Then, a phrase, BASE INGRATITUDES, from a favorite old book became its name. The figure in Caitlin Connolly’s painting is carrying something — and in these past four...
A Stranger Took A Risk
A stranger took a risk and helped me today. Today as I left a store, I felt a wee bit off balance; ( the joy of maturity!) Approaching the curb, I stretched out my hand -- and a younger woman – a stranger -- reached out her hand to steady me. It was risk, because in...
Low Sunday: A Description or Invitation?
I had never heard the name, Low Sunday, until the author of a favorite devotional mentioned it. In the parlance of the church, the first Sunday after Easter is known as “Low Sunday.” It may well express how some of us feel . . .We may think we have earned a rest . ....
A.I., Self-Control, and Prayer
My FITBIT died. Well, actually the cheery red band turned loose of the tracking device. I am searching for a replacement band. Until it arrives, I am on my own, monitoring my steps – i.e., keeping the old body moving. Move it or lose it, right? Alas, no friendly...
A Crime Series Spins a Web of Pain and Purpose
Like a delicate spider's web -- Broadchurch is a British crime series that portrays awful crimes, and their effect throughout the community. It is a well-done dramatization of the power of one sin to metastasize in the lives of both the police and the people....
Persistent Problems and The Prayers They Improve
Context Persistent problems can improve my prayers. When they make prayer my only option, doubts turn into questions, and fear into faith -- wobbly, maybe, but faith. I remember one of Your lessons in prayer: As I was filling out new medical forms with old...
Calling, While There Is TIme
Life troubles my mind. It unsettles my soul . . . I fret. Fog shrouds the morning sun – like doubts that dampen joy. The news confounds my faith that God is up. Or real. Yet, feeble faith, and wobbly hope that He is, is what I have. God, I...
Does a BIG Birthday Require A New Version of Me?
Every next level of your life will require a new version of you – the meme said. And I concur, especially when one is over the hill and traveling on a downward slope at an unimaginable rate of speed! So, having recently celebrated the dawn of what I hope will be a new...
Fear Can Look A Lot Like Hate to Some Folks
"How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?" the well-known magician Penn Jillete asked on a facebook video. Frankly, that question smacked me upside my oh so prone people pleasing head – or, maybe...
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