“Under the old system, the high priest brought the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, and the bodies of the animals were burned outside the camp. So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates to make his people holy by means of his own blood. So let us […]
“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” ~ Galatians 6:9 It’s not easy to wait for the reward for all our hard work. The results. Or at least some teeny tiny glimmer of them. Not easy to persevere, to press on, to […]
One of the things that makes suffering so hard is that — often — it seems so utterly pointless. It doesn’t feel noble or heroic at the time. Especially when it’s you. Especially when you wonder if it’s your fault — if you feel you somehow brought it on yourself. Or that you deserve it. […]
It’s not easy to hold on to hope, especially when your heart is bleeding. Georgia Shaffer understands. Georgia is an amazing woman! We’ve been friends for years, but long before I met her she had already battled breast cancer twice, and had been given a less than 2% chance of surviving ten years — just as she […]
It’s one of my favorite Thanksgiving memories… My cousins and siblings and I singing the Pilgrim hymn “We Gather Together” at the top of our lungs… and not just in our classrooms, where we were learning it for the annual elementary school Thanksgiving Feast, but in the car both to and from school, and in […]
