Unshakeable Confidence – Oct. 10, 2022
“We must learn to act differently from those who always hesitate… We must be clear about what we want, we must ask whether we’re up to it, and then we must do it with unshakeable confidence… All we can do is to live in the assurance and faith.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. […]
Dining with Demons
It has always seemed to me that what the Bible calls demon possession* looks a lot like mental illness. Because it runs deeply in my family, I have learned to live with cyclical depression, which periodically disorders my thinking like an inner demon that wants to drive me to ruin. After so many years, I […]
The Blessedness of Waiting – Nov. 9, 2020
“The blessedness of waiting is lost on those who cannot wait, and the fulfillment of promise is never theirs. They want quick answers to the deepest questions of life and miss the value of those times of anxious waiting, seeking with patient uncertainties until the answers come. They lose the moment when the answers are […]
