The Gift

The Gift

It’s the anticipation I love.  The waiting…planning….preparing. The Little Ones are wrapping handmade gifts with wrinkled tissue paper and a stapler.  Mom, I need some help.  The Big Guys trample up the stairs.  Where are the cookies?  You’ve...
Reflections on Connecticut

Reflections on Connecticut

A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice…Isaiah 42:3 Like the rest of you, I’m in mourning today for the horrific and senseless loss of life in Connecticut. I sit helplessly...
Prostitutes, Prodigals, and Perpetrators

Prostitutes, Prodigals, and Perpetrators

A social outcast, Mary Magdalene was the bad girl of Galilee.  Women warned their sons about that woman and respectable men turned away in embarrassment at her knowing smile.  Mary was hopeless.  Rejected.  Irredeemable. A beloved son rejected his father and his God...