What Now 2 Do

The business of forgiveness is not complete until you’ve let God fashion His love in your heart toward those who have sinned against you, until you have been willing to show them the grace He has extended to you through Christ.

Today you are challenged to make at least two phone calls – at least one of them to someone you haven’t spoken to in a long time. Use the call to catch up on their lives, to see what help they might need, and to provide some humor. For many, social isolation is close...

Father, I want to see myself as You do and live my life as You intend. Expose in me the empty and barren places where I have not allowed You to enter. Selah

Because children have abounding vitality, because they are fierce and free in spirit, they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to...

Now then. What in the world am I to do about all the bills that I have to pay? The landlord wants his rent. Credit card payments are coming due. Food. Toilet paper. Yikes. What-Now-2-Do? 1. Recognize you ARE NOT ALONE. Millions of us are in exactly the same bind. 2....

We wrote Thursday on some strategies to employ that would see us through the challenges of being holed up in the Coronavirus “flattening the curve” experiment. Herewith a summary of those strategies: 1. Rest. 2. Eat Healthy. 3. Physical Hygiene. 4. Mental Hygiene. 5....

We wrote yesterday on some strategies to see us through being holed up in the Coronavirus flattening experiment. Today some thoughts on tactics for achieving those strategies. The following tactics on mental hygiene are paraphrased from a series of tweets by Carl T...

Jewish folklore has it that King Solomon asked his wise men to make him a magic ring. The ring would lift his spirits if he got depressed, and bring him back down to earth if he got euphoric. The wise men returned with a ring inscribed: “This, too, shall pass.”...

It is absolutely good news that God will judge the wicked, unless, of course, you yourself are wicked. Then it is bad news. Very bad news. I'm just saying.

I've thought about it. There is just no other way to put it. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets." Jesus, Matthew 7:12. NASB All the...

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 - 1972)

Depending on who you believe, the mortality rate of Coronavirus is less than 1% of those who actually contract the virus (making the big variable the number of people who actually get the disease). But there is a virus afoot that has an 100% death rate. It's called...

Surely the most significant question today is "What does all this look like from God's perspective? There is a school of thought about the last 40 / 50 year decline in the culture of our country (which, by extension, includes the current Coronavirus fiasco) that goes...

What are the righteous to do when the foundations are being rattled? Turn to the Owner's Manual, the Word of God, given to us by our Creator. I like the metaphors of the MSG translation. The psalmist (David, the future King) contemplates rattling in his time. Note...

a noun, not an adjective.

I sought the Lord and He answered me. And delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4 NASB

The LORD is my shepherd,I shall not want.He makes me lie down in green pastures;He leads me beside quiet waters.He restores my soul;He guides me in the paths of righteousnessFor His name’s sake.Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I fear no...