Remembering Where God has Been

 
Psalm 22 begins, “Lord, why have you abandoned me?”    Jesus cried these words from the cross, at the depth of his experience of forsakenness. 
Did he also remember these words that come later in the Psalm?
“Yet it was you who brought me out of the womb;
       you made me trust in you
       even at my mother’s breast.
 From birth [...]

The Family Table

At our family table we find a vegetarian, a couple Weight Watchers point counters, organic gardeners, locivores, a meat-and-potatoes man or two, and one lactose intolerant diner.   What’s a mother to do?
Creation began in a perfect garden.   Weekend conversation about Genesis revealed that Adam and Eve began as frugivores.  (Look it up.)   It was only [...]

Walking

Would Jesus have left a carbon footprint?

Occam’s Razor for Trying Times

Occam’s razor is the principle that simple explanations and theories are preferable to the more complex.   

 
 
In the life of faith when daily realities overwhelm and questions abound,  an Occam’s razor approach would be to face the unknown with that which we know.    In times of tragedy, in walks through the valley of the shadow, when [...]