Grateful Beggars

Out and about on errands, I suddenly craved a diet soda. I spied a hamburger fast-food restaurant and headed for it–when I also spied a homeless man sitting on a block wall holding a hand-printed sign. I couldn’t read the sign but immediately felt the...

Only Good Things From God

(Be sure to read this all the way through so I’m not misunderstood.)Several weeks ago, as we prepared for daughter Darcy and 22-month-old grandson Raphael to arrive, we laid out on the floor all the knives we could find and put ant poisoning in a dish for...

“Lord, Don’t You Care?”

The disciples were being blown off the lake–actually, they were afraid they wouldn’t be blown to shore but that they would die when their boat capsized. The storm must have been the worst they’d ever experienced because these experienced and hardened...