She had been in the room next to Julia in the ER and heard everything: Julia’s sharp cries of pain, the frantic activity of the doctors and nurses who were trying to save her, the tears and shock of Doug and me as we struggled to deal with this tragic new reality. Like us, she...
When my daughters were young, I trusted them to clean their room. I never set aside a certain time of day or demanded they clear the clutter at the expense of missing an activity. I knew some mothers who put their kids in lockdown if they were not keeping their spaces neat. Being ‘...
to be free from the bad circumstances or maybe even your own bad choices. And I love the stories that portray that, and show that we need help—on our own we just sink deeper into our mess, into darkness.
(Psalm 30:5) Even when we’re dragged to the depths of despair and everything’s going wrong, joy wins. Paradoxically, joy can be an underlying state – the default setting for the Christian life that underpins our lives – even when, at times, it seems everything’s against us. ...
For a long time, I was afraid of my Resistance. When it rose up against me, I ran. When it got too close, I looked away. I let it claim me as its own belonging. To my Resistance I say,“I am here now, because of you”.Because your fortress is not my fortress, because your...
You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies;For they are ever with me. Genesis 3:6 and Psalm 119:98 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked… For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image...
in accounts of people heeding that guidance or struggling against it; in exhortations to guide others wisely and warnings against false guides; in expressions of hope, such as “You are my rock and my fortress; For Your name’s sake You will lead me and guide me” (Psalm 31:3); etc...
Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. ...