God of Hope

If you help an emerging butterfly in its struggle out of its chrysalis, you may free it, but the little creature will not be able to fly because…

The last minutes of a football, soccer, or basketball game can be nerve-wracking. In those sports, you have to…

Too often, emotions, rather than reason, drive the train. Reason, followed by…

Life is better when it’s shared. Life may be at its most difficult when it is…

We might want to think we’ve discovered or created something. In reality, of course, as Seneca wrote, almost nothing is created out of nothing (except…

As free people, we like to do things our own way. An often-repeated popular song emphasizes…

While many people may be working hard to climb the corporate ladder, others are discovering it can be…

“I wish I could run in the Olympics.” “I dream about winning a Pulitzer Prize.” Such wishes and dreams may be worthy ambitions, but…

Some people are so certain of their knowledge and what they’ve learned from experience that they overwhelm others in…

Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does…

The media is so inundated with ads about personal care that we all should be healthy and fit. Then there are…

When God created humans, his intention was that they enhance and reproduce the rest of creation. What is sometimes forgotten is…