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“Hope” “Now these three remain: faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.”   I Corinthians 13:13  When “life happens,” people are tempted to give up hope. It must feel like that today to the residents of south Texas who just experienced hurricane Harvey and whose lives have been ripped apart by the…

Total Eclipse Nothing can compare to the love of a father. On August 21, 2017, the moon’s shadow passed over the United States of America, coast to coast; from Oregon in the west to South Carolina in the east. An event like this had not occurred since 1918. Hence, I could have observed the eclipse…

STABILITY “Grow where you’ve been planted…because the grass is probably not greener on the other side.”  (Old Proverb) It seems that stability or “steadfastness” is a vital component of the mature spiritual life. For example, in a monastery, the monks commit to staying in their particular community for life, regardless of whatever practical or management changes come…

Humans have always had an innate fear of a snake.  In the Bible snakes have served as a symbol of the “evil one” or the “deceiver.”  In Genesis 3 we read the story of Adam and Eve and their encounter with the lying serpent.  Proverbs 23:32 speaks of wine going down smoothly but in the…