We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.
Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.
I think that I speak a lot like I write.
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened up my clerical collar, you might say.
I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.