One night I was behind a driver who lost control of his car going north on Hwy. 100 through the western suburbs of Minneapolis. I watched as the car swerved across three lanes, hit a guardrail and smashed. Pulling over to the side of the road, I called 911. I was just beginning to explain […]
I wonder about Judas. Judas is remembered as the disciple who betrayed Jesus. Most often we ask how he could have sold his friendship for thirty pieces of silver. We wonder what was going through his mind. Was he angry, upset, frustrated with the direction Jesus was going? Was money that important to him? Did […]
“Mary picked up an alabaster jar filled with nearly a liter of extremely rare and costly perfume—the purest extract of nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet. Then she wiped them dry with her long hair. And the fragrance of the costly oil filled the house. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples said, “Why was […]
**“No Name” is what the woman called herself. She was in a locked ward of a psychiatric unit in a hospital, wearing a straitjacket. She was there because she had tried to harm her father after years of suffering from abuse . . . she was to say, “I am beyond the state of hope. […]
Fatalism is the disease of those who have lost hope. Fatalism says that there is nothing I can do or say to change the circumstances that I live in. It tells us that there is no point in trying or reason to work at bettering oneself. Fatalism says that our lives are entirely in the […]
I’d been waiting for a space to open up on a busy March weekend at the gas station. Finally, it looked like the van ahead of me would be pulling away. At the pump beside me a woman in a van was also waiting. Just as she was pulling into her slot, a driver coming […]
I’ve never been to the Olympics but I can appreciate what an incredible thrill it must be to stand on the podium, representing your nation while the National Anthem plays. There the cumulation of a lifetime dream is accomplished. Those who stand in that place do not arrive without a great deal of pain and […]
