by Morning Reflections | May 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Just a few months ago, most Americans couldn’t have located Ukraine on a map. Even after saturation coverage of that nation’s plight since Russia’s invasion last February, few people are aware that Ukraine has been intermittently trampled by powerful neighbors from...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dee Dee Kuruneru pointed to the grayish line permanently imprinted eight feet up the wall of his nearly demolished seaside house. “That’s how high the water was,” he said. “It stayed there for ten minutes.” That extraordinary watermark was the legacy of the tsunami...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Every week seems to be a heartrending week.If you watch your local news, the First Awful Story is almost always about a murder, a shooting, a child abduction, a housefire, a missing person, or a rape. Then come the Covid metrics. The virus at the center of...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Eleven years ago, a 25-year-old Oklahoma resident named Kristi Loyall noticed that her right pinky toe kept going numb. During a doctor’s visit she was dismayed to learn that she had a rare soft tissue tumor called an epithelioid sarcoma. Her heart sank...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
When author and pastor Timothy Keller released a new book eight years ago, he could not have foreseen how dramatically he would personally be living out the title: Walking with God Through Pain and SufferingIn June 2020 he was diagnosed with pancreatic...