Parasitic Sickness and How to Heal
We can grow accustomed to sin without realizing we’re starving our souls. “I want you to check for intestinal parasites,” I told their pediatrician. “They don’t have parasites. They don’t show any symptoms. Perhaps they’re underweight because they haven’t been fed enough.” Their doctor seemed certain. I doubted. “I want them tested anyway. We adopted […]
Why You Need to Change Your Point of View
The familiar brown truck rolls up our farm’s gravel drive and the man who loves to play tug with our rambunctious yellow lab hands her a biscuit before handing me my box. She jumps and nearly gets him in the face with her enthusiastic expectation and her wet tongue. Yeah, and so it goes. We […]
What We Most Need
How does he do it? How does Jesus love people who are deeply sad, distressed? Lazarus was dead and Jesus had come too late, Martha told him on the road outside Bethany. “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus reassured. Jesus gave Martha hope by telling her the truth: “I am the resurrection and the life. He who […]
Some Scenes of the Seen
She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.” Genesis 16:13-14 SCENE ONE: It goes like this . . . Years ago I sat on the kitchen floor in front of an […]