Last week, I wrote about control and responsibility. Obviously, I do have some responsibility toward other people. I really can’t just throw up my hands and leave everyone to their own devices. That’s no more helpful than trying to control everyone. Flip sides of the coin, you know? But I realized that my sense...
Tag: faith
Somebody Wanted
Somebody wanted. I saw this phrase on my daughter’s reading response log paper the other day, and it struck me. On her paper, she was to fill out blanks next to each word for the story she was reading this week. Somebody _______________________ Wanted _________________________ But ________________________ So __________________________ Then ________________________ But I immediately...
The Cost of Disobedience
Yesterday, we watched the woman walk down the path of deception. Her deception led to a choice, to disobedience. And the cost of disobedience was death. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...
Reasons Why
So much of life is just plain easier to handle when we know the reasons why. When I was teaching composition and grammar, I spent a lot of time trying to give context to the seemingly endless rules of English. Most of my students were much more comfortable in their science or engineering classes....
Anxiety
I think we all have that one thing that haunts us – a habit, a sin, a something that seems to undo us just by showing up in our day. Mine is anxiety. I’ve struggled with anxiety for years. Decades, even. For most of my life, it’s hovered in the shadows until, without warning,...