Posts tagged “Kindness”
Unchain my soul
I am yearning to be free. I am yearning for a better society, and I think we could have one if we all wanted…
Gifted for God’s glory
You are gifted for glory. The word glory means that someone or something makes you gasp, “Wow!” A sunrise, a newborn baby, or the…
Won’t you be my neighbor?
Tom Hanks saw some Oscar buzz for his portrayal of PBS TV icon Fred Rogers. Today’s children identify more with the tune to Daniel…
We can rally around Jesus
I live in a politically diverse state. This is a bad thing because it means we get an abundance of political commercials that try…
Messy comfort
My ten-year-old is a big stuffed animal guy. He sleeps with one fox, one dog, four bears, two monkeys, one woolly mammoth, and at…
Build me up
I tell my kids that people are like building blocks. Our words can build them up or knock them down. When conversations with a…
Don’t be a troll
Do you know about troll farms? Until recently, I lived in blissful ignorance. But then I learned how thousands and thousands of people in…
The healing business
From the start, Christians have been in the healing business. “Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out…
Showing up
Woody Allen is credited with saying, “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” If you check other sources, he might also have said that…
YOU are the moon
“You are the light of the world.” If Jesus didn’t say it, we might think it was false teaching. But he did say it…
Let there be lights
A few years back, our family took a tour through Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. At one point in a deep, open part of the…
Our Savior saved us
My firstborn daughter was just a little peanut on the day she almost drowned. Everything was sun and smiles at our friends’ backyard pool…