There’s a lot of bone-cold weariness circling round all sorts of people—poor people, rich people, old people, young people. I’ve talked to people from as different walks of life and as different political opinions as you can imagine, yet perhaps without realizing it, they – we – all need the very same thing—HOPE. I find …
Are You Trying to Hurry God?
As I listened to the lilt in her voice when she read Mrs. Frisby’s part in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and then to the deepening of her speech when it was time to read the lines of the bossy rat Brutus, I smiled to myself because my daughter not only “got it” …
An Idea for Your Women’s Ministry
We had a “prayer brunch” for the women at our church on Saturday. “Prayer brunch” might lead one to think, “Women in their pretty dresses, bringing in warm breakfast casseroles, a lot of talking and maybe a little bit of prayer.” Other than the “warm breakfast casseroles” part, the other couldn’t be farther from the …
What your spouse/friend/children really need for Valentine’s Day
As my beautiful friend sat across my dining room table from me, the words eventually tumbled out: “I have never been ‘enough’ for my parents. Not good enough. Not hard-working enough. Not successful enough. Not wise enough. I was good. The things I did were good—just not good enough.” What I saw was quite the …