Percentage is No Way to Measure
Something caught me off guard this week as I was packing lunchboxes for my children one morning. I was half listening to the national news when I heard our President state in a press conference, that “he had quit smoking 95%.” What does that even mean? What are the parameters for determining such a [...]
Continue reading...28. February 2010
Twelve Against One
13. That was my answer to a friend’s text asking how many people I personally know who are unemployed. Thirteen! A baker’s dozen wondering if they will keep their house or how they’ll pay this month’s bills. Luke 8:14 talks about those whose faith is choked out by life’s worries. Some of my thirteen unemployed [...]
Continue reading...21. February 2010
Four Portraits of Followers
Luke 7 paints four different portraits, real people in real life dilemmas: 1. The Humble Outsider: A Roman Centurian pursues Jesus as his only hope for a dear and dying servant. He is the least likely person to understand Jesus’ power to save, and yet he is the one who truly believes in Jesus’ Godness. Even [...]
Continue reading...14. February 2010
If Truth Be Told…
It was the Sabbath, a very sacred day for us Jews. You see, our law explains quite clearly that we are not to do any form of work on the Sabbath. So, you can imagine my shock this one particular Sabbath. I was walking near the synagogue when I heard a commotion. [...]
Continue reading...7. February 2010
More than he Longed For
Some of my friends had tuberculosis a few years ago. In order to prevent spreading this highly contagious disease, they had to stay in their apartment all day, every day. They ordered groceries online with instructions for the food to be placed outside their door. Only at night were they allowed to leave their enclosure, [...]
Continue reading...1. February 2010
Flint-Faced
May 27, 2002, Boulder, Colorado. The day of my first 10K running race. Sixty-two minutes later, as I crossed the finish line in front of 40,000 fans, I looked only for the faces of my husband and three little boys in the crowd, cheering me to the very end. They’d driven over an hour and [...]
Continue reading...24. January 2010
Harsh Words and a Difficult Lesson
Almost every week my eight-year-old daughter comes to me on two different occasions—once on Tuesday and once on Thursday. Sometimes she doesn’t even have to speak. I just know by her facial expression what she’s thinking. On Tuesdays she asks me if she has to go to dance class that day. Each [...]
Continue reading...17. January 2010
Jesus no where to be Found
Jerusalem A twelve year old boy has been missing the past three days. His parents, Mary and Joseph, were returning to Nazareth after celebrating the Passover and mistakenly believed Jesus was in their company. It wasn’t until they traveled a day that they realized the child was not with any of their relatives. They immediately [...]
Continue reading...17. March 2009
Mothering like the Father
If you’re a mom, how many times have you wished you had some sort of directions for raising your kids? Well, now there is a book that provides those directions, or more aptly, points to and highlights the book where these answers can be found. Mothering like the Father: Following God’s Example in Parenting Young [...]
Continue reading...31. March 2008
The Beast’s Undoing
In front of me stands something incredibly large. Invincible, in fact. It appears to be a tank, shroud entirely in heavy armor–a tank with eyes. He stands more than nine feet tall. His armor weighs 125 pounds, more than my entire body weight, which doesn’t even account for the fifteen pounds just for the tip [...]
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7. March 2010
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