This week, I’m inviting you to join my husband and me in a national missions initiative. John and Sylvia Ronsvalle, whom we’ve known since we were young, are bold. For more than thirty years, they have headed empty tomb (intentionally uncapitalized), a source for free clothes, home maintenance, and food, among other services, for the …
Author Archives: Karen
Steady on the Rail
Sometimes Jerry and I walk along railroad tracks and I try to walk on a rail, but I can’t quite keep my balance. It’s a little beyond me. Then I reach for Jerry’s hand. If I can even just touch his hand as he walks alongside me, I walk confidently. Absent his hand, though, I …
God’s Show
Jacob Needleman, eight years old in 1942, had an Uncle Ben who gave him a half-dollar coin now and then. In those war years, fifty cents felt like fifty dollars. Needleman says, in his book, Money and the Meaning of Life, “The experience of this incomprehensible generosity from my Uncle Ben exerted a constant pressure …