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 …
Category Archives: Christian Devotional
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 …
Waiting
“A virgin shall conceive.” Isaiah told God’s promise hundreds of years before the baby arrived. To a people living in darkness, Isaiah prophesied a great light. Hope was kept alive through the years by other prophets but many everyday Israelites must have doubted on their deathbeds that Messiah would ever come. And yet, as a …