For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. – Romans 1:20 Synopsis (complements of Waterbrook press): As Little Cub and her family prepare to celebrate the most […]
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. – Jon Stewart Sometimes, the main thing you have to be thankful for is that “this too, will pass”. Of […]
“I will not cause pain without allowing something new to be born”, says the Lord. – Isaiah 66:9, NCV This is a good little book. Actually, at 281 pages, it isn’t so little. With sections on injustice, rejection, loneliness, loss, discipline, failure and death, the book covers a lot of […]
Now, although a fiddle may never be fooled by the folly of human thinking, very much like us, they have pain. Their necks are stiff and their nerves, their strings, are stretched. They feel the friction of the bow, and inside their beautiful brown little bodies they have only a […]
Today, I visited the school where I interned as a guidance counselor five years ago. I found some stuff at a yard sale I thought they could use and decided to make a surprise visit. Really, it just gave me an excuse to see some old friends. These are people […]
(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. – C.S. Lewis
I never had any interest in Boston University. None at all. Having said this, you may wonder why I chose to go to school there. Well, I was at a college fair and there was a very special person who was filling out forms for BU. I didn’t care one […]
It isn’t often that I’m aware of someone long before that person becomes famous. Apart from Adam Sandler and I don’t know who else, there just aren’t many people who hit it big from New Hampshire. The lack of famous athletes drives the point home. I had to chuckle when, […]
How do you empower yourself? I think the question really is, how do you keep from disempowering yourself? How do you make the choice not to impose self-limitations by thinking, I can’t do this. I can’t do that? Why not make the choice to be the very best at what […]
To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. […]
What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance…. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place. Isn’t this true of all really important events in life? When I am together with someone I love very much we seldom talk about our relationship. The relationship, in fact, is too central to be a subject of talk. But later, after we have separated and write letters, we realize how much it means to us, and we even write about it.
– Henri Nouwen, The Genesse Diary
