I recently helped lead a confirmation class with my wife. When I lead youth in these kinds of faith-encouraging activities, I often find myself learning more than the folks in the class about various aspects of my faith. It was so with this experience. We were discussing the Trinity by examining the passages when each […]
Holy Spirit
What Do We Do with Halloween?
It’s time to celebrate All Saints Day again. I find it amusing that we set aside a day to remember those who have gone before us in faith, as though we will forget them if we don’t. But nobody seems to remember that particular day (except for a few) because we’re all more focused on […]
A Moment of Wind
As I stood at the rail, looking into the great chasm before me, I wondered about the impending sunset. I was on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, facing west as the light in the sky dwindled. It was the end of my last day there, and I wanted to capture a vivid sunset […]
Early Check-In
Traveling, especially by air, has become a complicated, detail-encumbered process in recent years. Security issues related to terrorism and safety issues related to the pandemic have driven many to abandon it altogether. In our case, we were going by air, or we weren’t going, so by air we went. Many things that I enjoyed about […]
Never Alone
(Read John 14) My mother died several years ago. Since then, I have had countless times when I wish I could share something with her – some good news, significant accomplishment, fun moment, or beautiful sight. Each time, I am touched with a unique kind of loneliness. I miss her! Death is a terrible, unnatural, […]