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Your Grief Has Been Shared By Others – All Saints Day
All Saints Sunday November 1, 2020 Today is All Saints Day. This is a day that we set aside to give God thanks for the people that have gone before us and have lived lives of faith. This is not an easy day because we long to be with those who are no longer physically...
All Saints Day: To Remember and Give Thanks
All Saints Day: To Remember and Give Thanks November 1, 2020 Today is All Saints Day. This is a day that we set aside to give God thanks for the people that have gone before us and have lived lives of faith. This is not an easy day because we long to be with those...
Note to Self
The Christian church celebrated the breath of God on Pentecost Sunday (May 31), while our nationbegan to grieve and pour out its anger over George Floyd’s death, a man who was refused his breath until he died. We must not lose sight, because of the violence and...
Generosity is Often a Team Effort
A 10-year-old boy from Liberia entered Mass General Hospital in Boston just before the COVID-19 pandemic. He was diagnosed with fibrous dysplasia, an uncommon bone disorder in which scar-like (fibrous) tissue develops in place of normal bone. This massive...
Do Hummingbirds Worry?
I had a conversation with a bird last week. I'm not Dr. Dolittle, although my wife calls me that sometimes when it comes to doing housework. I asked, "Mr. Bird, why are you singing so much?" He said, "It's springtime, don't you know?" I said, "Yes, but people are...
Lent Reminds Us to Seize the Moment
Signs of spring are slowly arriving. The buttercups are opening up. The rose bushes are covering their thorny stems with new leaves. Trees will soon begin to bud and pollen will begin to fall. Robins will arrive. It will not be long before hummingbirds make their...
Dining With the Most Important Person in the World
Outside of your family, who would you name as the most important person in the world? Let's imagine you have been chosen to honor that person by preparing or by having a meal prepared for him or her. Also, you are invited to dine with that person. Imagine the time...
A Template for Making this World a Better Place
It was a warm sunny day in Houston, Texas, on September 12, 1962. John F. Kennedy stood before 40,000 people in the Rice University football stadium to deliver a speech that helped launch American astronauts to the moon. Most Americans were not convinced that we...
Something That Can’t Be Taken From You
Not long ago, I needed to water some plants in my backyard. Mia, my granddaughter, was over for a visit and she wanted to help. I felt a little bit like Tom Sawyer, handing that hose over to her, but I didn’t have to convince her that it wasn’t every day that a...
I Place My Life in this Hope
We have a golf cart at our church that the staff uses to move around campus on occasions. It can sit for several days, sometimes for a week or more before we use it. That's long enough for wasps to find it be a suitable home for their home. Last week I told our office...
I Need to be More Like My Dog
I Need to Be More Like My Dog Our thirteen-year-old Labrador Retriever, Dixie, died a couple of years ago. We loved our dog! She was a part of our family when our boys were teenagers. After she died, it was the first time in almost 30 years that we had no children and...
Without Compassion, We Lose Our Humanity
I have spent a lot of time in Liberia, a country on the Western coast of Africa. I wrote a book about a 12-year civil war that devastated that country. There has been unspeakable savagery through the years, but there has also been Christ-like sacrifice, like the...