Category: compassion
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Countercultural Patience
When I come across a thought I have read which intrigues me or offers a fresh perspective, I will mull it over throughout the day, discuss it with others, even seek to apply it. “Countercultural patience” is just that kind of thought. It is a term I came across when reading through a blog from…
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Finding Rest
Someone asked me a few months ago how I was doing in this pandemic. I said I was doing well. I didn’t even qualify it with an “all things considered…” I had been on break from school for a few weeks in the summer, and the weather had been good. I’d started having outdoor social…
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Bit and Bridle
“Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.” (Psalm 32:9) Whenever I encounter this verse, it sometimes troubles me because I don’t want to be that person who God has to drag kicking and screaming…
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Beggars in Need
A week or so ago, I had an argument with some family members about politics, a subject I generally take a hard pass on. But I love and trust the people I was speaking with or maybe it was the wine. It was just outside the bar where we had gathered to celebrate a milestone…
in heartbreak and in hope 