Learning to Stoop

It was a quiet morning, and I was sitting on my porch, watching a fledgling hawk in the bare branches of a tree in the field.  An adult had been near the fledgling for a while, but now had disappeared.  As I watched, the fledgling took off and flew up into the air, only to […]

Unmistakable Love

(Read John 13) The whole idea of washing someone else’s feet (or having them wash yours) makes many people cringe.  Just the thought of becoming that physically engaged with someone with whom we are not intimate makes us uncomfortable.  And maybe that’s the point of Jesus’ actions as recorded in this passage. Some time ago, […]