In 1985, a band called The Power Station released a song that immediately became a best seller. With a snappy tune and fast-paced lyrics sung by the British singer, Robert Palmer, the words described a swath of the American culture. We want to...
Time is a problem for us. We live lives filled with multiple options with an array of many things to do and opportunities to engage ourselves in any number of tasks. Sometimes, maybe most of the time, we have so many things to do we don’t know which...
In the Gospel of Luke (10:42), the Lord says: “There is need of only one thing…” For as long as we do not find that one thing or we get sidetracked looking for many other things, inexorably, we can expect anxiety, restlessness, tension, agitation...
“A long time ago a lighthouse sat along a dangerous stretch of coastline. A man was put in charge of this lighthouse. When he was first assigned as lighthouse keeper, he was given just enough fuel oil to last him one month, and he was told to keep...
Once upon a time a traveler was walking home after spending many years in a distant country… At sunset he entered a vast forest, a forbidding but unavoidable obstacle on his journey. Just as he realized he would quickly become lost, he saw an...
It seems that everyone with a computer or a cell phone is weighing in on the George Zimmerman verdict. The number of themes is quite limited, however. Justice was done, justice was not done; Zimmerman simply defended himself, Zimmerman murdered...
Some years ago I was visiting some friends, and their teenage son opened the refrigerator to get himself a snack—but he couldn’t find anything he wanted, so he just stood there with the door open, staring inside. His father was annoyed that he was...
