Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I…
Greater Love
Category: Obedience
Leaning (Trusting)
I often second-guess. I pull away & hesitate & hide away. I don’t easily trust my instincts or my own motives. I know my weaknesses & my failings, so often I have overcomplicated the idea of calling & purpose until…
For He Will Save
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her…
They Spread the Word
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to…
Life Lessons
A few weeks ago my very grown-up children and I were trying to decide what to do about Christmas. They all live great distances away, and they dreaded trying to travel at holiday time, especially with COVID on the uptake…