Lord, increase our faith! Not long before Peter was accosted by the collectors of the temple tax in Capernaum, Jesus told his disciple, “If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you”…
I thought it was a bunch of trash at first, just a pile of papers and rags lying on the sidewalk. People walked past, stepping carefully around it. As we got closer, I saw the curve of a head, dark hair spinning out like a hurricane around a cowlick at the crown. It was a…
The other day I wrote something I was really proud of. Then, because no adults were around to share it with, I decided to read the piece to my children. At the ages of three and seven, they’re a little young to really understand, but I hoped a little bit of what I thought God…
My father said something to me recently, words that have haunted many of my waking moments and caused me to seek the Lord when I wake with a pounding in my chest. Upon learning that he had been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver, my father bitterly decried the latter half of his life as…
This time of year, so many of us are thinking about new beginnings. I used to think of beginnings as just the means to an end. But since a beginning itself can teach us so much, I want to invite you on a journey across space and time, to the moments just before creation. “In…
When the first day of January hits, I pop out of bed and begin dreaming of what I want to accomplish over the next 365 days. Usually I commit to reading a certain number of books, and every year I try to set a goal for my health. In the past I’ve set some over-ambitious…