Laboring in God’s Time (Meditation 63)
One of the most difficult parts about being a teacher is not seeing the fruit of one’s labors. Sure, during the course of the semester a student or two will…
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Our Fragile Light (Meditation 62)
This verse first became meaningful to me during a time of crisis when I was in college so many years ago the remembrance of pain seems sharper than many of…
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God’s Vision of History (Meditation 54)
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain. Isaiah 53:10 I grow less and less comfortable with this verse as I get older. My body…
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Spiritual Currency (Meditation 53)
There is, as often is the case with the prophets, a historical backdrop for this verse which I believe enriches rather than contradicts what I have to say here. I’ll…
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Wilderness (Meditation 52)
Something in the way a wonderful lector read this passage recently made me take notice of words that could have just sped past me, having read and heard them so…
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