Let Aunt Bertha Pinch Your Cheek

Awwww. Aren’t they adorable? Those are my three kids. Nine years ago. They are still adorable, but they’re not so little anymore. My oldest is about to turn 17. My youngest daughter will be 15 in a few weeks. My baby boy is 12. Those of you teens and tweens reading...

Spiritual Anorexia

How long do you go without eating? A few hours? A day? Maybe, if you’re fasting – or on a crazy diet – you might go a few days or even a few weeks. What about a month? A couple months?  Crazy, right? It’s dangerous to go without food for an...

THE Christmas Story

About that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire. This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for. So Joseph went from the Galilean town of...