Results and Faith

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. You’ve seen the disclaimer when you look at a company’s quarterly results or your retirement portfolio: “Past performance is not an indicator of future results.” You know what that means—those outstanding… Continue reading Results and Faith

Of Endurance and Hope

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen?  But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for… Continue reading Of Endurance and Hope

The Ears that Hear

Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. The Gospels have many accounts of Pharisees, Sanhedrin, scribes, and others who just couldn’t see. They were learned people, people who studied the Torah as if their lives… Continue reading The Ears that Hear

Believe in Miracles

An occasional series based on stuff that hangs in my room… or my heart. “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” the Queen tells Alice in Through the Looking-Glass. When I read the book as a child, I tried that. I tried believing in the very tangible “impossible” things: that I would… Continue reading Believe in Miracles