I have long avoided Lamentations. The writer lamented too much – did his job too well. Then I realised that for the Psalmist, praise often proceeds from lamentation. I recalled…
I am not talking about jumping into the currents, and dying to save a drowning child I have never met. Not about showering the unkind with kindness. Not about you…
Two quotes help me ponder my reverence for God. Nothing covers everything about God but they cover enough for me, for now. In Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson's When I was…