Is Kindness a Virtue in the Public Arena?

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” Samuel Johnson “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain “Love your enemies! Do good to them. Lend to them without expecting to be repaid. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will… Read More

Not the Wilderness Again!

God, why send me into the wilderness?It’s hard, forbidding, scary, hot,empty of anything life-giving. Why did I send Moses, the Israelites, John the Baptist, and My own Son Jesus?What was in the wilderness? Yes, but why me, God?I really don’t like it here. “Where do you focus on Me?”“Where do you strain to hear My… Read More

light source: eclipsed by glory

David Crowder turns the meaning of eclipse on its head in his song “How He Loves.” “…When all of a sudden I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory and I realize just how beautiful You are and how great Your affections are for me…” God’s love is the master eclipse— its light the… Read More

coming into being

What is advent? Before this morning (when I looked it up) I would have said it was “the time before” or “a time of waiting.” But there’s more to it than that. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives this definition (when not capitalized): a coming into being or use such as <the advent of pasteurization> or <the advent… Read More