I’ve got to have a Bible, so I can learn more about Jesus,” our five-year-old granddaughter insisted. She was speaking to her Gigi (Lori) and her Great Aunt Lisa, Lori’s sister, visiting us from Oklahoma. They were going to church together on Sunday, and Emmie insisted on carrying a Bible. After all, it wouldn’t do for …
In the summer heat, when I feel like snoozing under the air conditioner for a siesta— baseball—like an umpire, nudges me in the ribs and whispers, “You better wake up, or you’ll miss it.” Miss what? The stuff of life that matters, that’s what: the essential things that so easily slip through your fingers, the …
Walking downstairs from my study to get a cup of coffee, I overheard Hoda Kotb on the NBC News morning show interviewing someone about walking. The gist of the interview was that walking is a simple exercise you can fit into almost any time or place. “Some people tell me they only have thirty minutes …
Standing in the hall outside the patient’s room at the long-term care facility, I heard her pleading: “Could someone help?” “Can I get someone for you?” I asked, poking my head in her door. “Oh yes, thank you,” she said before looking at me, as if my voice itself were that of an angel. I returned …
Like ancient Greeks at the Oracle of Delphi, many people wait, anticipating something prophetic from their loved one’s last words. Maybe it’s a revelation into the eternal, a release from guilt, or the secret to peace from life’s fray that people hope to hear. On rare occasions, it happens, as it did for those gathered …