"But as for me …" It is an often used and highly contextualized phrase, It differentiates us for wide and narrow streams and common currents of thought and deed. It is my response to truth for which I am either… Continue reading

We fall; we rise. We are adjudicated and found guilty and then … The Judge steps down from the bench to plead our case. It is as if we cannot lose; every loss becomes a win. Continue reading

The psalms teach us to pray deeply and honestly without pretense or presumption. They just let it out and then let God sort it all our. What if we did not judge or measure our prayers before we prayed them? Continue reading

                Last of all … Servant of all … A child ….                 and the one who receives the child … These are the greatest because they have become the least. "And he sat… Continue reading

  I have often availed myself of the wide place. I was having a moment of gratitude the other day when I realized that I was not wobbling, staggering, and swaying as I had been at other times in my… Continue reading

Several years ago, I was  browsing, looking for that quote from Aeschylus on the awful grace of God. Naturally, most links were to Bobby Kennedy's speech on that terrible night in 1968 when he had to inform the gathered crowd of the assassination… Continue reading

“This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.” – John 21:14 My favorite event in the early years of my schooling was neither recess nor lunch; it… Continue reading

   “LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. “– Psalm 8:1 Creation gets in our face over the matter of the excellent majesty and power of God.… Continue reading

"And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs." – Luke 24:13 I can’t help it. Whenever I am out on an open highway with no end in… Continue reading

"One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people." – Exodus 2:11 It was a day of awakening for Moses. It was not his best day, but it was a turning point out of which would come good. He saw what he had never seen before and… Continue reading