After visiting our children and grandchildren in El Paso, we were driving through utter darkness to a remote place in Arizona. Black-tailed jackrabbits, which can leap up to twenty feet, kept bounding in front of our car. Chuck kept swerving, at seventy-five miles per hour, to miss hitting the jackrabbits. The one time we encountered…
My mother read aloud to us once a year; on Christmas Eve, she read Luke 2 and “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” We had very few children’s books in our home, but someone gave me—the child insomniac with chronic pain—Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book, which I cherished. Despite crying over trying to read the word “laugh,”…
In Ephesians, Paul compares the church, which is the body of Christ, to the human body. Christ gives a diversity of gifts so diverse members of his body can do diverse acts of service to build up the diverse body in unity in the faith and in the knowledge of Christ. In this way, each…
