Weekly Reflections

There is an appointed time for everything (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
Have you, with increasingly regularity, been amazed at the passage of time, saying, “It was just yesterday…”? Do you sometimes long for the days when you were younger, full of plans and having the energy to bring them into reality? On the other hand, as the years [...]

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I will restore their fortune, bringing them back…to the land of their origin (Ezekiel 29:14)
Some time ago I had the privilege of returning to my home town and surrounding areas where I saw most of the people and places I wanted to see. I had the distinct impression, however, that I was not the only [...]

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Listening recently to the presenter at a workshop on spiritual mentoring, one sentence particularly struck me: “We begin our psychic growth in the gaze of a parent, in the embrace of a caretaker. From the very first moment of our lives, we are looked at and held. And we look back, focusing in on and following the cues of the face that first looks at us.” The speaker further developed his topic showing how…

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…You have a greater than Solomon here.   (Matthew 12:42)
            This passage of Scripture draws my attention to the queen of the South who came from the “farthest corner of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon.”  I see the elaborate preparations she made in order to come into his presence.  Bringing a large [...]

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But if it dies, it produces much fruit.   (John 12:24)
     Like the grain of wheat, we must die to bring forth fruit. Jesus says that those who love their life will lose it, while those who hate their life in this world will preserve it to life eternal. To an age of self-loathing and a lack [...]

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