Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish woman who wrote letters from a transit camp in Germany before she was carted off to Auschwitz and killed. Listen to the poignant relevance of what she writes. How does it apply to your life today? "People here fritter their energy away on the thousand irksome details that grind […]

Sometimes, people say hard things. Usually, they are things I need to hear. But I'd prefer they say soft things, kind things, comfortable things ... Don't you agree? Same with God - sometimes God has to say hard things. This is what I read in the Bible yesterday, and it left me speechless: "Quit your […]

"... the one who in love forgets himself, forgets his suffering in order to think of someone else's, forgets all his misery in order to think of someone else's, forgets what he himself loses in order lovingly to bear in mind someone else's loss, forgets his advantage in order lovingly to think of someone else's […]

Distraction is our greatest enemy. When followers of Jesus are worried, hurried and distracted, we become neutralized, wandering through life, failing to see the people we are called to love, too worried about the future to engage the present, too busy to stop and see the "burning bush" God places in front of us, too […]

In the midst of the back-to-school frenzy, which no longer rules our kid-free home,  I am reminded of how important it is to speak truth to yourself lest you be swept away by the torrent of hurried, harried, frantic messages swirling around you. I read this today and was reminded of the craziness fall can […]

"It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God - but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people - and this is not learned in five minutes." (Oswald Chambers)