Jesus and His disciples are out on the Sea of Galilee in a small boat. Jesus, exhausted, is asleep in the back of the boat when a storm to beat all storms arises. Jesus awoke to their cries: "Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” (Matthew 8:25 NLT). He rebukedd the...
This story is hard for me to tell; yet I feel a burning in my heart that it is a message that is vital for someone out there.It was back in the days before my diagnosis with Alzheimer's. In fact, it was, perhaps, the first time I actually became aware of my problem;...
Do things see pretty grim? Have you considered that they may not be quite as bad as you think? That you might simply be “blinded” to what is really going on?
We all tend to talk to God when we’re afraid… But what about the rest of the time?
Through this series so far, we have looked at the child-like perspective on many areas in life -- from war to having fun with family and everything in between -- all through my memories of my youth. This is one significant part of life, however, that children are not...
My older brother and I shared a common bit of philosophy. We agreed that any years granted us beyond a certain given age would simply be icing on the cake, and death at any point thereafter should not be viewed as a great tragedy. We felt that our life up to that...
At the finish of October this year, I chanced to gaze on the inky night sky to admire the lovely round face of the blue moon. Perhaps you’ve heard the expression “once in a blue moon”, meaning “not very often”. Indeed, a blue moon is the second of two full moons in...