Sometimes it’s the little luxuries that make the day. Today the aroma of coffee reminded me of that. Taking time to savor the flavor became important. Gratitude was sweeter to stir in than sugar or any kind of substitute. What’s…

I fell, shattering my ankle. Had many new “learning opportunities” with that. Some will yield lessons for years to come. There are other things you’d rather not hear about.  At least I hope that’s true, because I don’t want to…

Easter, Resurrection, New Life —all those things we sing about and talk about and wonder about— they really do matter. One of my favorite promises is from our old friend St. Paul, If anyone is in Christ, the new creation…

He was speaking to British troops, but those words apply to us. They were in the midst of the Second World War, but those words apply to us. We are on this side of that first Easter, and those words…

True  story.  (The best ones always are.) We were about to eat lunch. The person praying was labeled Special Needs. As soon as the Amen was said, I was fumbling for my pocket notebook to write down that prayer. “Thank…

How many people saw Jesus after that first Easter? How many places? How many times? How often? When? You can comb through Scripture and find it was to quite a large number of people, in a variety of places, and…

Easter. Monday. After all those hymns and choruses and lilies and eggs and special offerings and chocolate and family time and fine-tuned sermons and whatever else yesterday included for you…it’s Monday. It’s Easter Monday. It’s time to let yesterday matter today. Time…

Despite what Jesus had said several times in several ways, they were not expecting his tomb to be empty. They were not expecting to see him again. It was, and they did. Unexpectedly so, on both counts. Where today will…

You pushed the elevator button.  You wait. You listened to the greeting on the voice mail, next will come the beep.  You wait. You moved the tap at the sink from cold water to hot.  You wait. You took something…

One of my favorite bands has a song that says, “I shouted out, ‘Who killed the Kennedys?’ when after all it was you and me.” Today, Good Friday, is a day when some want to ask “Who killed Jesus?” Same answer:…