Steve Coburn’s tirade on Saturday about the unfairness of allowing horses that hadn’t run in either the Derby or the Preakness to run in the Belmont (his excuse for why his horse, California Chrome, didn’t win the Triple Crown) got me to thinking about human suffering, and the God who allows it. Weird, huh? But […]
Death of a Writer
One of my favorite authors died last month. Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian-born journalist and author. My introduction to him came in my World Lit I class at Chapman University when we read “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” followed the next year (World Lit II) by “Love in the Time of Cholera.” On my […]
Christ has risen…He has risen indeed!!!
Christ has risen…He has risen indeed! This declaration and response resounds throughout Christendom on Easter Sunday…a day I look forward to each year. While the Christmas season holds special meaning for Christians worldwide, Jesus did not ask us to remember His birth. But He did ask us to remember His death, burial and resurrection, which […]
Identity
Who am I? First off, I am a wife and a mother—those are extremely important roles to me. I am a writer and editor by vocation, both as a career as well as what I perceive to be my life’s calling. I am a classical guitar player and knitter who loves the outdoors. But do […]
Wisdom
January 6 was Epiphany, the celebration of the Magi’s visit to the Christ child in Bethlehem. I use this occasion each year to spend a little more time than usual meditating on the first four chapters of the book of Proverbs, which I call the “wisdom” chapters because they speak specifically of the value of […]
I Believe, Therefore…
Over the last couple of months, I began thinking about my Christian faith in a way I have never done before. I have been a Christian for a long time, with the typical highs and lows that come with the seasons of the soul. I know that is normal, yet I found myself wanting more […]
Re-envisioning the First Christmas Morn
A few years ago I wrote a Christmas children’s stage play that has since been produced in a number of churches. In the opening scene, after a choir of pint-sized angels sing “Glory to God in the Highest,” three shepherds have a conversation in which they all agree they don’t believe in angels, didn’t see […]
Putting ObamaCare in Perspective
Newsflash: Obama is not the enemy and ObamaCare is not evil. Judging by all the snarky comments running rampant among Obama opponents, you would think he is the anti-christ and ObamaCare his weapon of mass destruction. But that’s simply not the case, and all this inflammatory talk causes us to forget that we are to […]
Death Defier
Some of my readers know that my husband had back surgery a month ago today to relieve pressure on a nerve that was causing him tremendous pain. He had been declining rapidly after a fall in June, and besides the pain, was not doing well overall. The surgery present a risk in two respects. One, […]
Christ in Danger
From the eighth stanza of the Prayer of St. Patrick, 5th Century missionary to Ireland, come the words, “Christ in Danger.” I have meditated on this stanza of Patrick’s prayer over the past month, along with Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s book “Christ, My Companion,” a wonderful reflection on this portion of the ancient prayer. Of all […]