Everything we have, all that we feel is stable, and all that we know can be snatched from us in a moment’s time. It is Quincy Jones who wrote: Everything just change; nothing stays the same! Everyone must change! Nothing and no one stays the same. There are not many...
After Hurricane Katrina, I remember going into neighborhoods devastated by the storm … and going onto the land on which people, now gone, had walked and lived. It was eerie; in spite of it being the middle of the day, these neighborhoods were deathly quiet. The...
It is hard to be still sometimes. We are in a turbulent time. For many, it feels as though there is no bottom to stand on, no solid ground. Rather, it feels like the unknown is hovering over us, smiling smugly, doing what it wants…because IT is the only entity...
Perhaps it is because of the way I was raised, but I think I have always believed that God being “good” meant that with God, or because of God, bad things were not supposed to happen to people who believed in Him/Her. Imagine, then, my struggle as...
On this, the eve of the inauguration of a new president, I am reminded the Scriptures which say that the only sin which is unforgivable is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. The words are recorded both in Matthew 12 and Mark 3. The Marcan version reads, from the New...