Category: from the heart
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› Read more: Living in His Largesse
Living in His Largesse
Largesse is not a word we use often. In fact, most of us have no clue that it means, “generosity…
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› Read more: Growing Backwards towards Bethlehem
Growing Backwards towards Bethlehem
In a culture that loves ascending ladders, hitting milestones, and surging forward toward progress, I often feel like one who…
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› Read more: Simeon Bears the Burden Bearer
Simeon Bears the Burden Bearer
Simeon was a story gatherer. As an elderly man, he carried the weight of the stories of his people, both…
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› Read more: Light Pollution & God’s Power in the Darkness
Light Pollution & God’s Power in the Darkness
I know. I know. I sound like Scrooge talking about light pollution just as people are going to great lengths…
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› Read more: When Questions are Your Company
When Questions are Your Company
It’s funny. In the toddler years, I expected the near-constant series of “Why?” from my curious children. Yet, I am…
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› Read more: Parenting Teens: Growing Together
Parenting Teens: Growing Together
My middle fella turns fourteen in a few days. My oldest fella recently experienced a big disappointment over which I…
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› Read more: When Your Prayers Seem to Hit the Ceiling
When Your Prayers Seem to Hit the Ceiling
C.S. Lewis wisely wrote in a letter to a friend, “We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be…
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› Read more: Sobs for the Synagogue
Sobs for the Synagogue
I wrote the following in 2019 when a local synagogue became the target of an anti-Semitic gunman. Since then, the…
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› Read more: Widowed Yet Still Wed
Widowed Yet Still Wed
The word widow comes from the Middle English word which meant to be empty. Even before that, it was derived…
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› Read more: What Death Put On DisplayWhat Death Put On Display
We had “said goodbye” at least five other times, but we knew this time was different. Parkinson’s Disease is a…
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