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Psalm 40 paraphrased

Lord, I wait for you, and sometimes wait and wait. But you always hear my cry. You pull me up from the raging pit, You lift me out of the miry swamp. You set my feet on a rock You make my steps firm. Then you put a new song… To access this post, you must...

I’ve Heard Enough

A person of advanced age began to have hearing problems. Reluctantly she gave in to suggestions from family members that she consult an otolaryngolosit (eye-ears-nose specialist). After a thorough examination of the woman’s ears, the doctor said to her: “We can fix...

Tell Him…

“Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart, it’s pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you; tell him your joys, that he may sober them; tell him your longings, that he may purify them; tell…...

Through Jesus’ Eyes

William J. Locke has a novel about a woman who has every amount of money imaginable. She has spent half a lifetime on touring the sights and galleries of the world’s greatest art. And she has now become bored and weary. Then she meets a Frenchman who has no...

Too Easily Pleased

“Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what...

The Priest and the Pastor

Two pastors in the same town chanced to meet while walking down the street. One was a Roman Catholic priest, the other a United Methodist minister. They began to chat and the Methodist minister was bubbling over with enthusiasm as he talked about the new church he was...