No place like home

No place like home

Having a lot of time on your hands (as I’ve had lately) to ponder life’s deeper things brings up some unusual material. For example, have you ever thought of the perversity of experiencing something so incredibly amazing/beautiful/heartwarming, that you never wanted...
Post hospital-stay musings

Post hospital-stay musings

My recent 4-days in a hospital bed were revealing. They were a no-choice life-interruption to be served, a time of childlike helplessness, a brief season of switched roles, a hiatus of normal activities and responsibilities. I’ve written before about the quality of...
The Source of Bounding Joy

The Source of Bounding Joy

By four years of age, children have absorbed millions of bits of information telling them about the world and their place in it. Dr. James Dobson, of ‘Focus on the Family,’ has stated that children are the best receivers of information and the worst interpreters of...
Pressed down, shaken together, brimming over

Pressed down, shaken together, brimming over

No matter one’s taste in music, the list of love songs is near endless. Sometimes a celebration of found love, sometimes expressing an ache to be loved, sometimes exposing the searing pain of heartbreak. And because God is love, each of these songs can be compared or...
War and Peace

War and Peace

The human body, by design, is a happily-running, perfectly-oiled, machine. It is not innate in its creation to bear the multi-faceted burden of sin and death. Those two things alone place terrible stress on each of a body’s functions. When serious conflict, be it...