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The Exchange In the 1966 movie, “The Trouble With Angels” Mary a rebellious young girl at a Catholic school run by Mother Superior (Rosalind Russel),found the head of school finishing a project begun by another student who had fallen asleep. For the first time Mary had a real conversation with Mother Superior, who told her…

It was getting late when I went for the second time into my four year old granddaughter’s room to remind her to settle down and go to sleep. I looked at her wide open eyes and said, “I’ll just sit here in your chair until you go to sleep.” “You’re going to stay with me?”…

When Corrie Ten Boom walked into a men’s prison in Bermuda and started talking (shouting) about Jesus and God’s power to transform lives, she couldn’t be heard because of the noise coming from the cells. When she finally shouted, “When I was in a German concentration camp during the war. . .” , suddenly it…

When Mary called Jesus to come in for supper, the name she used was “Yeshua”, the Aramaic for of the name “Joshua”, which was later translated to Greek, then Latin , into the English “Jesus”. As Christians we mostly forget that the baby Jesus was named for the prophet and leader Joshua, by instruction from…

When I was born my father’s sister, my Aunt Mildred, selected a sterling silver pattern and purchased for me a spoon in that pattern. Afterward I received a spoon or fork or knife every birthday and Christmas from her. On Christmas Eve I was allowed to open Aunt Mildred’s gift only. My brother also opened…

This Christmas season I felt the urge to binge on feel-good Hallmark Christmas style T.V. Shows. I experienced a diminishing sense of pleasure at one romance after another, accompanied by starry-eyed children and some amazing “coincidences” “Go back to your heart, and from there to God. You’re going back, you see, from the nearest possible…

The four year old daughter of Diane, a friend of mine, was so unruly that her mother could hardly control her. Lori was the youngest of three children and “willful” would be an understatement of her character. Diane talked to her pediatrician who told her, “You can be very strict, or very lenient, but it…

God always knew that words cannot express the “Word”, the one known by his disciple John as the “Word.” (John 1:1) Instead, God wrapped the Word in human flesh and swaddling cloths, so that, with the help of angel visitations to Mary and in dreams to Joseph, in a host of sweet singers to some…

C.S. Lewis wrote a famous book titled “The Four Loves” in which he explores the four Greek words for the English word “love”: Philia, Eros, Storge, Agape. Roughly translated these four are, friendship, erotic love, affection, and holy charity. The translators of the Greek New Testament into English had no choice but to include all…

Joy Most of my life I believed that Joy is a by-product of happy circumstances or relationships., but Nehemiah, the steadfast returner to Jerusalem after being exiled, wrote this when his people had become conscious of how far away they had fallen from God’s words to them: “This day (of return) is holy to the…