Christ is risen! He looked at me and said something I never expected: "Conflict is necessary for close friendship and healthy relationships." What? I hated hearing that. In fact, it made me question whether I was trusting the right person with this particular challenge. It was a sticky situation that...
Christ is risen! "Stubborn, stubborn, I tell you." I can still hear the words of my grandmother fussing about a relative who simply refused to hear "good sense" as she called it. "That boy is a stubborn as a mule!" I confess, as I enter the latter half of my own...
Christ is risen! As I was studying what to write today, I wanted to look up the meaning of the word "murmur." Do you know what popped up first in my research? Yep, heart murmurs. The sound your heart makes when it's sick. I thought about this for a while...
Christ is risen! In the church I was raised we just didn't do the Lord's Supper very often. In fact, there are years where I can't remember if we did it at all through a particular year. And that didn't strike me as strange or unusual. After all it was...
Christ is risen! One of the oldest manuscripts we have for the earliest days of the Christian Faith outside the Gospels is the Didache or "The Teaching of the 12 Apostles." This ancient writing dates from the First Century A.D. and begins with an intriguing phrase: "There are two ways, one...
Christ is risen! He was almost breathless telling me about the event he experienced. It was overwhelming to him. He and several friends from his parish were thrilled to have a myrrh streaming icon come to their community and this precious Orthodox convert was simply amazed at witnessing this sign...
Christ is risen! It was a moment of truth. You know what I’m talking about; moments in your life that really reveal your inner character. That’s where I was, and I failed! It took me a long time to admit it, but when I finally did, it was like a...
Christ is risen! T.S. Eliot, one of the 20th century’s major poets, said: “And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.” It strikes me as significant that an author would write something like that. And, in...
Christ is risen! We’ve heard so much about “light” and “darkness” and stories of people having near-death experiences and seeing a “light” at the end of a tunnel and being drawn to that “light.” And not to mention the common fear of children of the dark, the popularity of “night lights”...
Christ is risen! Did you know that today is the day we commemorate a miracle? Well, technically we commemorate a miracle every day. Every day is an invitation to know God deeper! Today we remember the appearance of the Holy Cross over the city of Jerusalem. St. Cyril writes “At about...
