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By my count, we’ve now accumulated more the fifty days in our current lockdown mode. I’m sure I could easily cite fifty reasons I wish it were over already.
In the forefront lies the recognition that, as someone very cleverly put it, “We’re not all in the same boat; we’re all in the same storm.” We are not suffering equally, and it’s frustrating to feel the limitations of what I can do to be helpful in…..
Have you ever tried to tell the story of Easter to a child? It’s daunting.
In the first place, it’s at least R-rated. There is political manipulation, payoffs, treachery, fear, horrific torture, as well as the death of the hero. No wonder we want to skip from Palm Sunday to Easter Bunny and call that the holiday.
But at some point, we have to grow up and face the darkness. Not only what happened during the original Holy Week, but…..
When we read Exodus’s story of Israel’s flight into the desert, we usually observe the fickleness of the Hebrews – how they praise God one minute and turn around and complain the next. But when we find ourselves in our own spiritual wilderness period, it’s pretty easy to find things to grouse about.
In…..
Trust is valuable. We want people we trust and aspire to being trustworthy.
Yet, like so many precious things, it’s fragile. Once broken, it’s challenging to reassemble.
Such a valuable commodity predictably requires delicacy. Yet when we speak of building trust, we forget that it can also be a pretty messy and graceless process.
Let’s go back…..
I spent a lot of my day recently jumping through bureaucratic hoops. I had calls to make where I listened to a lot of music, forms to fill out online that didn’t work the first time and had to be re-entered, and then I had to take notes and make copies documenting all my progress so…..