Category: prayer

The broken left ski

December 2, 2010 | 6 comments

It wasn’t two hours after my family arrived at our cabin in the snowy Blue Mountains last weekend that my teenage son, Tyler, and one of his best friends, came back to the cabin on one snowmobile. They had left

Eliminating worry

November 9, 2010 | 5 comments

How much time do you spend worrying about tomorrow? Hopefully none, but if you do fret about the future, now is a good time to replace that worry with trust. Worry is fear. It denies God’s omnipresent goodness. It is

The most effective action

October 28, 2010 | 1 comment

I followed a car to work with the a bumper sticker that read… Take matters into your own hands: PRAY! For anyone who complains about feeling helpless or hopeless about deplorable conditions in the world, obeying this admonition is a good place

Jury duty

August 27, 2010 | 3 comments

I was called in for jury duty last Monday. I sat in a large room with 70 other potential jurors patiently waiting for instructions. Two trials were about to commence and most people around me appeared to be hoping they