An eighty-year-old man went to the doctor’s office for his annual physical checkup. The doctor was hugely impressed with the man’s physical condition. “Sir, you have the body of a man thirty years younger. What is the secret of your extraordinarily good health?” The...
“God, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy, grant us a glimpse of your glory; that our eyes may be opened and the world transfigured for us; that we may see your glory in all things, and the entire earth full of your glory.” David Adam To access this...
Rabbi Joshua ben Karhah was once asked, “Why did the Holy One, blessed be he, speak to Moses out of a thornbush?” The rabbi replied “To teach you that there is no space free of the divine presence, not even a thornbush” (Exodus Rabbah 2:9). To access this post, you...
A nine-year-old kid was swimming at the hotel where his parents were staying. He walked up to a woman who was sunbathing beside the poor and asked, “Are you a Christian?” She replied, “Why yes, I am.” He went on: “Do you read the Bible and pray? Do you follow…...
My brother, Dr. John D. Sweet, is a teaching elder in the Philadelphia Presbytery (PCUSA). This meditation was part of his Christmas letter: “G > /\ + \/ . . . These 4 symbols mean that God (G) is greater than (>) our ups (/\) and downs (\/), God is… To...
A five-year-old girl asks, “Daddy, where was I when you were a little boy?” The question prompts Dad to look in the direction of her brother, a twelve-year-old growing by leaps and bounds. The father remembered his own early adolescence, and decides that now is the...
