This Lenten season, I'm doing something I've always wanted to do. I'm reading or listening to Jesus pray, every day. For me. I'm focusing on Jesus's last supper prayer in John 17. The Gospels contain numerous mentions of Jesus praying. I won't list them all here (although it's a great treasure...

This life requires much of us, doesn't it? So much perseverance to endure the hard stuff with flexibility to keep us from being broken. There is peace and there is turbulence. We're sometimes buffeted and sometimes buoyed in the storms. And no one can live it for us. Our experience of life is...

note: this is edited and re-posted from 2022 - because I had to remind myself. We’re just barely into this new year but, perhaps, it’s already tarnished. Perhaps what felt like a new start, a fresh thing, a bold beginning when the fireworks were flaring has sputtered out with old worries, fresh...