Being Saved
As more and more people in the US are vaccinated against the dreaded COVID-19 virus, the instructions keep changing about what we can and cannot do. Who is allowed to hug friends and family and who should wait? How many people can be in a room together? Do they have to wear masks? Who, if […]
With Cautious Hugs
For the first time in a year of pandemic isolation, I set the table for five on Easter Sunday. I felt both excited and awkward, unsure that I had enough food, that the house looked okay, that we were, in fact, safe from infecting each other. After a year of restricted contact, we were about […]
All Is Gift, All Is Grace – Jan. 15, 2020
“What we are, what we have, even our salvation, all is gift, all is grace, not to be achieved but to be received as a gift freely given. God’s bias in favor of sinners is so immense that it is said we will be surprised at those we find in heaven whom we had not […]
God Does Not Give Up on Anyone – Jan. 14, 2020
“God does not give up on anyone, for God loved us from all eternity, God loves us now and God will always love us, all of us good and bad, forever and ever. [God’s] love will not let us go, for God’s love for us, all of us, good and bad, is unchanging, is unchangeable. […]