She handed me a Ziploc bag full of pennies for a fourteen dollar pizza and said in the softest voice, “I think there’s enough.” The wind was brutal that night.…
Thomas Browne said that “the vices we scoff at in others laugh at us from within ourselves.” More than any other relational failure this is true of hurt and vengeance.…
A sparrow complained to Mother Nature, “You gave beautiful colors to the peacock and a lovely song to the nightingale, but I am plain and unnoticed. Why was I made…
The loved ones we call the deaddepart from us and for a whileare absent. And then as ifcalled back by our love, they comenear us again. They enter our dreams.We…
“You pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world.” My Commentary: That sentence is profound because the moth’s mistake…
Jesus gave us a sobering warning: “On the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter.” (Matthew 12:36-37) Words matter because words…
At 81, Edna Kowalski lived alone in an apartment building in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where pets were not allowed. But for an entire year, every Sunday after church, she took a…
After spending 178 days aboard the International Space Station in 2011, astronaut Ron Garan returned to Earth carrying something far heavier than space equipment or mission data. He returned with…
