“You can tell a tree by its fruit.”  We have a huge mulberry tree next to our driveway.  Every year we can be sure of a few things.  We can be sure we will have a tree full of wildlife from mid-June to end of July … all kinds of birds and many, many squirrels [...]

Life is far more a matter of faith than we sometimes think.  We tend to feel like the weights of life fall directly on our shoulders, that we are responsible to make things happen, to keep healthy, to make good decisions and provisions for the future and to keep safe.  However, if God really is [...]

What do you do when all your alternatives look bleak?  Sometimes it looks like there simply are no good options – to stay as you are won’t work, to choose option A will not help, and to choose option B might be the worst choice of all.  What do you do then?
Four Samaritan men with [...]

Does it seem to you that everyone is more tired than they used to be?  Maybe this is just the perception of one who is looking through an aging lens, but it might be based on some growing realities in our culture.
I imagine that people were more physically tired 100 years ago after a long [...]