So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. ~Romans 10:17 A friend’s drawl thickens when he calls family in Texas. Another friend, far from her native Taiwan, finds a balm for homesickness in speaking mandarin with newfound friends. This is our heritage: our mother tongue sings our homecoming. What […]
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The psychologist Erik Erikson writes of how in the first stage of our development the primary concern is basic trust versus basic mistrust. For infants, the outer predictability of consistent patterns of care becomes an inner certainty. Trust births hope. This inner certainty runs deeper than memory. It lives in spirit, flesh and bone. And
In divine moments, by the Holy Spirit, nature’s beauty uncloses us. Tightly wrapped, we are unbound
