To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Parents are well aware of the fact that on any given day they are passing along more than just peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to their kids. Children are seemingly equipped with spiritual and emotional Velcro. They pick up our attitudes, our opinions, our biases, our hopes, and our fears. And… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Earlier this week, at our local grocery store, I came face to face with A.I. A six-foot-tall pylon glided slowly down the aisle, emitting a series of happy squeaks. Its nameplate said, “Hi, I’m Tally! I check shelf inventory.” Tally is one of several robots being tested at Midwestern Kroger stores…. Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “A lighthouse keeper who worked on a rocky stretch of coastline received his new supply of oil once a month to keep his light burning.” That’s the opening line of a brief story told by William Maxwell in his book So Long, See You Tomorrow. The keeper occasionally welcomed guests from… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here There’s something missing in the book of Esther. God isn’t mentioned once, even though Esther is one of the 66 books of the Bible. God’s name may be missing from the book’s 168 verses, but God is definitely not AWOL or “absent without leave” in Esther’s story. The account of this ancient Jewish… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here If you choose to be good and do good, life will go well for you. That’s what religion finally boils down to, right? There are certainly groups out there that would sign off on that credo. But the Jesus movement has never been one of them. That is powerfully illustrated in a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When people fall in love with God for the first time, they often feel a new and intense desire: Lord, use me to do great things! God will definitely answer that cry of the heart. What’s not always apparent, however, is what it costs to be used by God to do great things. When… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 1906, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto noticed something interesting. As a rule, 80% of the peas that he harvested from his garden came from just 20% of the pea pods. Pareto also happened to know that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by only 20% of the population. And… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “Would you like to hold her?” On a cold winter morning more than 30 years ago, a young mother gently placed the body of her stillborn daughter, carefully wrapped in blankets, into my arms. She had come into the world that morning. And she had left our world that same morning. The Russian novelist Fyodor… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In the summer of 1919, the U.S military – less than a year after the end of World War I – undertook a major mission. Their goal was to find out if it was possible to drive from one coast of the United States to the other. Thus was born the Motor Transport… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here On March 30, 1981, just 69 days into his presidency, Ronald Reagan and members of his entourage were attacked by a lone gunman outside a Washington D.C. hotel. A bullet shattered one of Reagan’s ribs, punctured a lung, and lodged perilously close to his heart. By the time he had been… Read more »
