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Quick to Forgive?

I sat on the back porch steps, observing my six-year-old granddaughter attempt to teach the game of Frisbee to her deaf playmate. She launched her new toy through the air. “Come on, Anthony. You can do it!” Anthony shook his head. Kyra coaxed until he tried and succeeded. In his excitment, he hugged the yellow toy and refused to return it. Kyra begged, but he laughed, playfully holding it just out of reach. Bursting into… Read More

The Last Supper

Jesus looked around the Upper Room where he and his disciples had gathered to eat their Passover supper. Though they were unaware, he knew his time was near. Within hours, he would hang on a cross, dying an excruciating death for the sins of all mankind. On the third day, he would come gloriously back to life. His gaze found  Thomas who would doubt him, Peter who would deny knowing him, Judas who would sell… Read More

Will You?

In a recent reading on forgiveness, I was reminded of a relative. Through family stories during my childhood, I came to mistrust and then dislike him. It wasn't until years after his death that God took the matter up with me. By that time, I was a grown woman with a husband and a baby. While walking to work one day, I heard these words in my heart. "It's time to forgive. Will you?" I… Read More

What Amazing Love!

I'll never forget the evening Jim and I watched Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" at our local movie theater. As we exited with other patrons, no one uttered a word! What we had just witnessed on the screen--the unvarnished horror Jesus' sufferings--had stunned us to silence. As I recall the movie's content, all I can say is, "What amazing love God has for us!" That Jesus would willingly suffer such a horrible death… Read More