Category: christian
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The Love of a Father
With Father’s Day coming up, I had recollections of my dad and our relationship. What we remember becomes our reality, for better or worse. While we are often advised to “not dwell on the past,” sometimes it is good to do just that, but through a different lens. A lens…
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The Trinity: A Three-fold Experience of Divine Love
“When my wife passed away, it was like a part of me went missing. I could still feel her presence, see her in all those things that reminded me of her, but nothing could fill the hole her dying left in me.” The hospice patient shared his memories that still…
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The Ministry of Motherhood: A Mother’s Day Reflection
This weekend we celebrate Mother’s Day, a time of reflection, a time for gratitude. I think about and miss my mom, God rest her soul, whose legacy is elegant in its simplicity. As I reflect on this Mother’s Day, I think not only of my mom, but those mothers I…
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Dying, Rising, Ascending – The Triple Crown of Glory
Next week is Ascension Thursday – an important commemoration in Christianity, marking Jesus’ leaving Earth and rejoining His heavenly Father. Contemplating the brutality of Jesus’ Passion and the splendor of the Resurrection, I wonder if the theological significance of the Ascension is overshadowed in its importance to the Christian promise and…
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Light Of The World
After a rainy winter where we live, the sunshine lately has been most welcome – a reminder that in the beginning creation was formless, empty and dark … and then there was light. (Genesis 1:1-3) What is it about light that is so life-giving, and a source of re-creation?
