My granddaughter, Stella, called us. Actually, her parents called us with her on the phone; she’s only four and a half. An older child had taunted her at pre-school. “You’re invisible,” the girl had sneered at my granddaughter. The words stung Stella. I thought, “And so it begins; kids being mean to kids.” I almost …
Sometimes the stories from yesteryear reveal more truth than a thousand platitudes we preach. And most often it happens in the routine, mundane circumstances of life. Maybe that’s why Scripture admonishes us to use those very moments to pass along God’s truth: “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You …
Maya Angelou was onto something profound when she said, “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” She might have been echoing Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous prayer — the one Alcoholics Anonymous adopted — which asks for serenity to accept what can’t be changed and courage to change what …
Do you know what it’s like to be passed over? It stings. You had the perfect qualifications and didn’t get the job. “The one they chose was a friend of a friend of the personnel director,” someone whispered to you later. Or you were every bit as good as the player the coach put in …
Our daughter, Mary, texted me early one morning. “I’ve been praying that prayer to Lionel before bed — the one you always said to Dave and me growing up…it reminds me of you praying for us as you took us to school.” Lionel is her six-month-old son. I smiled and thought, “She’s remembered that prayer all …