7 Tips for Keeping Your Faith

The events of our lives and of this world can present a challenge to faith, as our spirits feel worn down and our sense of community is discouraged. For The Huffington Post’s GPS For The Soul app, I’ve shared these seven tips for keeping your faith. Read...

Isaiah 43:2

This day, this step, this path: you have set me here so then here I will walk at my best, to your glory. Let the storms wash my soul clean, let the fires be harnessed for warmth, let the raging river inspire passion not fear For the LORD is with me as I pass through...

Painkillers

Holy Comforter, Living God, Healing Jesus, I really wish your soothing comfort kicked in faster like the immediacy of morphine or a fast-acting Tylenol. There are days when I would prefer to eliminate the ache of caring, the brokenness of loving, the heartbreak of...

For a friend

In the year after your death, there were flowers and a new baby. Perhaps the flowers were nothing unusual, but still it was a surprise to see them — stars of purple and cobalt shining with hope through the gray fog of springtime in Maine. The new baby was hope,...

Most of all, O LORD…

Most of all, O LORD, forgive us… for we have not learned the lessons of last year, let alone the lessons of our histories, and we are still aiming for the holy grail of self-preservation to the neglect of loving our neighbors. Most of all, O LORD, be full of...

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