A hundred feet above the Apurimac River, near the remote village of Huinchiri, Peru there is a suspension bridge that connects the Limi-Cuzzo Road. It has been there since the…
Several years ago I visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. I really enjoyed gazing at some of the luminous paintings of the great artist Renoir. They are…
Garrison Keillor said, “We always have a backstage view of ourselves.” We let the audience see only the neatly arranged stage. But behind the curtain all kinds of things are…
A baby was born to Mary Teresa Hickey and her husband in 1945. The parents came from Cork, Ireland. The baby was a Down’s Syndrome boy. Mary Teresa held the…
It doesn’t matter what exactly you choose to do with your beautiful life,But I hope that whatever you choose,You go all in. I hope that you give it everything you’ve…
Frederick Buechner, one of my favorite writers, in Listening to Your Life, asks a series of questions designed to help us think about where we have been and where we…
Anxiety’s central message is that we cannot afford to share because we can never have enough. Put more strongly, in a culture marked by anxiety and fear, as is happening today,…
A little boy and his father were driving down a country road on a beautiful spring afternoon. Suddenly out of nowhere a bumblebee flew in the car window. Since the…
I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way;But left me none the wiserFor all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow,And ne’er a word said…
The leaders of our country need to start looking to Jesus to discover what true leadership is all about. Jesus was a trustworthy leader because he embodied servant leadership, aligning…
Do we think he is dead or alive? In his book “Living Jesus” Luke Timothy Johnson declares: The most important question concerning Jesus, then, is simply this: Do we think…
One day a teacher asked her First Grade class what was the meaning of Easter. One little girl raised her hand and responded: “Easter is the day when Jesus rose…
