Devotional

On a day not too long ago, to a standing-room-only audience at the newly rechristened Lena Horne theater, a surprise eulogist said: “So many of us think about who or […]

Sometimes the horizontal surfaces at my house require my Tetris skills to tuck and balance things piling upward. When they do, I zealously donate, recycle, or discard items that no […]

King Amaziah had a stressful job. He led an entire nation, and if the people didn’t follow the laws of God (all 613 of them), he had to answer to […]

“Do you make that much noise when you’re by yourself?” my daughter asked me as we worked independently in the same room together. Until she’d asked, I wasn’t aware of […]

“I’m looking for a sign,” said my friend. “God has always shown me signs.”  Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks […]

Sometimes, Depression sends a postcard ahead of his visits. On one side, in fat and deceptively friendly script, the words: “Wish you were here!” On the other side, scrawled in his […]

It is not easy for some people, including me, to speak openly about loneliness, so they remain silently lonely for loved ones, friends, the good old days. They keep loneliness […]

Simeon is the most obvious of prophets. Not like, oh Simeon, you’re so brilliant, you’re obviously a prophet! But like, duh, Simeon, it didn’t take a prophet to see that […]

Each January, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Mary Schmich invites her readers to pick a guiding word for the year—an idea that came from a reader named Mae. Mary is clear […]

Being married to a marriage-and-family therapist doesn’t necessarily fix things. It isn’t like my wife Jen has some magical pixie dust to toss into the air. But one of the […]