In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?
Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of Jesus. He never mentions the shepherds or the manger, but he didn't want us to miss the star and the seekers. It's easy to see why. Their story is our story.
God wants no one to leave our presence empty handed.
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.