The Longing for Significance There is within each person a need, a yearning for significance, a longing to believe that my life matters, that I have worth and value as a human being. Thousands of self-help books speak to this longing. People have sought to fill this void with their work, their accomplishments, their relationships.…
Gifts and Gift Giving As we light the third candle of Advent, the Candle of Joy, we pause to reflect on the true nature of joy, revealed not in what we receive, but in the gift God has given to the world in Jesus Christ. When is a gift truly a gift? There may be…
When we hear the words promise, or I promise, we often experience a fair amount of skepticism. How much depends on how often we have seen promises go unfulfilled or been disappointed. In the classic Christmas movie “Jingle All The Way”, the character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger is always making promises to his son and…
Fear – it comes at all of us in all manner of ways. Watch the news very long, fear is there. Listen to politicians, fear is there. Doom-scrolling? Fear is implicit in the word. We may fear different things (think spiders, snakes, bats and rats) but we all experience fear (we even have FOMO as…