What Happens Inside Counts

What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.

Know Pain to Know Joy

Take away my capacity for pain and you rob me of the possibility for joy. Take away my ability to fail and I would not know the meaning of success. Let ...

When the Going Gets Tough ...

A weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them. (Note: Viktor Frankl was a Holocaust survivor) ...

"Except Ye Become ..."

Calls to Christian development must be held in tension with a Lord who called the little children to Him, and told us that we don't have a thing on ...

The Trouble with Old Clay

I took a piece of plastic clay,

And idly fashioned it one day.

And as my fingers pressed it still,

It moved and yielded to my will.

I came again when the ...

Life Is Adjustment

What is life if not adjustment--to different times, to our changing circumstances, and to each other?

In Sickness or in Health

I took you, love,

In sickness or in heath,

For better or for worse.

And now I live my promise out. ...

The promises we made

Hold and support us both.

We are ...

Montesquieu's Opinion of the Population Crisis

The population of the earth decreases every day, and, if this continues, in another ten centuries the earth will be nothing but a desert.

Falling Down and Getting Up Again

I heard once of an Italian peasant woman who happened to bump into a monk who lived in a monastery high on a hill above her village. Since she bumped ...

Belaying--A Model for Ministry

Ten of us, all beginners, were climbing White Gap Mountain in North Carolina. We were using ropes in a system called belaying. I served as belayer, which ...