FROM the previous posting: IT is often said that we need the “big picture” if we are to have the right perspective on a thing, the right vision as to…

Trials still surprise me, as if the way of the cross that Jesus walked should not apply to me. I’d like to fast-forward through Good Friday and go straight to…

AS I mentioned in the previous posting, my heart is particularly burdened on a number of fronts.  I know a number of troubled souls, individuals going through difficulties; burdensome trials…

I FREQUENTLY speak of “desirable difficulties,” maybe because I see about me a growing array of trials facing so many near and dear, and yes – troubles about the land. …

THERE are many a day of late when I make eye contact with bewilderment - some dear soul whose life has met a tragedy, a disappointment, an unexpected, or uninvited…

AT this stage of my life, I’m in a very reflective mood.  It always amazes me how seemly insignificant events of the past are locked within the recesses of my…