Sometimes practicing kindness is hard work. I’m not proud of me right now. Not 30 minutes out of a fabulous, challenging, life-giving church service, I found myself in Walmart wanting to be mean. There, I said it. Put me in the corner. I deserve a time out. Yep....
Most couples are willing to spend an hour a week talking about their relationship. I suggest that emotional attunement can take place (at a minimum) in that weekly “state of the union” meeting. That means that at least an hour a week is devoted to the relationship and...
Share Love, Not Hate There’s a great debate going on around the world. Should lovers be able to symbolize their love by adorning historic bridges with love locks (or in other terms, “padlocks”). When Candace and I were on our legacy-chasing...
I should have remembered, though, that the life of the spirit is never static. We’re born on one level, only to find some new struggle towards wholeness gestating within. That’s the sacred intent of life, of God—to move us continuously toward growth,...
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn’t the end. Jesus didn’t escape from death; he conquered it and...
The Denial of St. Peter, Caravaggio, c. 1610, Metropolitan Museum of Art Notice the pointing fingers: the soldier’s one + the maid servant’s two. Peter denies Christ three times. Notice the positioning of Peter’s hands and the two fingers pointing...
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