My family has had exciting times lately. We’ve prevented a prison escape. Thwarted a bio-terror pandemic. Shut down an evil self-aware computer. Proved our mettle to Sherlock Holmes. Defeated an ancient curse. We’ve discovered escape rooms. Have you tried one of these...
Has the suffering in the world increased? Or is it only that I am overloaded with information, and so much of it carries the weight of suffering? Perhaps all that knowledge we can now access, the heaviness of it, is a kind of suffering in itself. I feel so...
I had a great time celebrating Independence Day with my family yesterday. We laughed and played games and ate and walked through a storm of lightening bugs to our fireworks-watching spot. I hope you all had a wonderful day too. But I know that sometimes a holiday is...
Going through a hard time, like walking a child through a mental health crisis, can bring emotions to just beneath the surface. One small touch can release them. Of course this is true of tears, hanging there behind the eyes, tightening the throat. But I found that on...
Jesus sure could make religious people mad. He was adept at turning their ideas about sabbath upside down. Apparently He didn’t hold to the notion that rest meant being hungry and suffering (check out Matthew 12:1-21). If anything, it meant more love, more abundance,...
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