Wait For It
Oh the joy on Christmas morning! My seven-year-old niece squealed excitedly when she opened her doll. Her apathetic teenage brother may...
Living an Algorithm
Facebook and YouTube and all of the on-line ads that annoy you to no end are following an algorithm. I think we all know this by now....
When There Are No Mountains
Christians often talk about "mountains and valleys." Mountains are those glorious times of intimacy with God, seeing God move in your...
When Hell Breaks Loose
Every generation has that one event they will always remember. That event for which they can say, "Where were you when...?" December 7,...
Loss of Dignity, Loss of Life
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil...
The Shortest Distance
The distance from New York to Paris is 3,627 miles, depending on which airport in NYC you depart from. That's a direct flight, of course,...
Climb 100 Mountains
Mountains cast a shadow At times it's hard to tell Will darkness overtake you Will you succeed or fail Though I've climbed a hundred...
The Broken Shard
Linda Sue Park wrote an award-winning book that I loved to share with my students. A Single Shard is a boy's journey to take a tiny shard...
The Pieces Make a Whole
Have you ever bought a hand-made quilt? Not a machine-made, mass-produced item with matching shams, but a cut-and-sewn masterpiece? I've...
Death Passed Over
This is Holy Week, for Christians the most important week of the Christian calendar. We celebrate Christmas, of course, because it...
