Look to God and Live… Joyfully!

I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me,Confused at the grace that so fully He proffers me.I tremble to know that for me He was crucified,That for me, a sinner, He suffered, He bled and died. I marvel that He would descend from His throne divineTo rescue a soul so rebellious and pride…

I love Palm Sunday. When I was a child, I imagined myself racing along Jerusalem’s streets waving palm leaves and shouting, “Hosanna!”. That image adapted as I got older. I was a teenager or a young adult running along the street, and then, as an adult, I no longer ran in my imagination, but I…

This week a story hit the news that was both fascinating and thought-provoking. The story was about a walrus who washed up on the shore of Valentia Island, an Irish island off the coast of, you guessed it, Ireland. This was the first-known sighting of a walrus in the wild in that country and it…

Every Sunday during church I get a notification on my phone that my garage door was left open. This occurs about 2/3 of the way through the meeting and since that notification normally shows up after ten minutes of the door being left open, I know that I wasn’t the one to do so. The…

This week I lost a friend, a very good friend, to pneumonia. She was 64 and it was completely unexpected. I admit to struggling throughout the week to make sense of it. In the past year I have lost friends and loved ones to COVID, cancer, and pneumonia and this latest one left me reeling.…