December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.

No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters.

That's what I'm hoping we can all do, is come together in a spirit of prayer.

Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.

We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by hair- their fears and insecurities. As a result God change them and use them to accomplish some mind-boggling things. Why couldn't God - why wouldn't God do the same in your life?

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened up my clerical collar, you might say.

1 out of 3 Americans says, "I hate my job." 80-plus percent say, "I'm ill-equipped and unenthused about my work."