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The simplicity of the image amazes me: a candle cannot light itself. The pastor speaks this line on Sunday, and the image won’t leave me

Today the Italian Mama reminded me of a great verb and a precious gift: to blather. Blather! To blather means to talk in a long-winded

I memorized Psalm 16 to survive my first year of graduate school at the University of Michigan. I recited it in rhythm to sound of

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All weekend, I consider the great mercy of God. We need His mercy. We appeal to His mercy most of all. He cannot change from

We leave early to drive back north to Pennsylvania. We learn the snow and ice will come this evening. We wish to get ahead of

The nephews teach me two new card games: Mafia and James Bond. We also play Spoons. When they ask me if I’ve ever played Spoons,

One of the Italian Mamas reminds me that everything “is as it should be” today. The phrase brings me back to God’s sovereign plan. It’s

The other evening, I remembered a post from ten years ago called “The Not To Do List.” It served as a wonderful reminder that you

I woke up in the night thinking about the beautiful words in 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. This passage marks one of the very first times I