Have you ever had trouble with the ‘Let go and let God’ approach? I have been having my challenges with it lately. Maybe this might help some of you. The premise is allowing others to subtlety take ...

I'm reminded of a narrative I once read about Two Boxes. God asked a woman to put all her worries in a black box and all her joys in a white one. She listened to His direction and as the days went on ...

Trusting in the Lord has made my life both easier and harder. Not long before his death, Henri Nouwen wrote in Sabbatical Journeys about some friends who were trapeze artists. They shared with Nouwen ...

How a helicopter mom learned the grace of hands-off parenting. My hands shook as I packed my sons’ brand-new lunchboxes. At ages 6 and 9, they were headed off to their first day of school after years ...

Numbers are important in the Bible, and not just the 66 distinct books with 1,189 individual chapters containing 31,102 verses. I’m talking symbolism — “numerology” — as it is called. Numbers like “3” ...

2020 was a year we'd probably like to bury deep under the sea. Its stormy arrival gradually picked up the tempo, eventually turning into an out-of-control tsunami. And yet, surprisingly, this ...

Is something robbing you of your peace of mind? I'm reminded of a narrative I once read about two boxes. God asked a woman to put all her worries in a black box and all her joys in a white one. She ...

You’ve probably heard the story about the man who fell off a cliff but managed to grab onto a bush on the side of the cliff. As he hung there in desperation he shouted, “Help! Anyone up there? Please ...