My son Lee stayed two nights with us this week. Daughter Rachel came for a few hours on Wednesday, and daughter-in-law Sue Beth left last Sunday after a week's visit. Our granddaughter April, a teacher, lives with us during the school year. Kinship. When it...

The word HEART has multiple meanings: GRETA'S  VALENTINE-SHAPED HEART pounded as Hans neared the group of girls. Would he pick one of the others . . . or come to her?        Genesis 34:3—His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and...

  Here I am again at Orange Lake Resort, Kissimmee FL, enjoying the "good life." I am, however, well aware of the army of ants that make and maintain all this wealth and luxury. In no particular order: •  Cleaning ladies •  Service responders •  Shuttle drivers •...

NEW YEAR'S DAY, AS WE KNOW IT, IS OBSERVED ON JANUARY 1, a relatively new date based on the modern Gregorian calendar. The earliest observance by the Chinese originated in 2000 BC from an ancient Chinese legend of the monster Nian and fell on the first day of the...

IN THE BEGINNING was nothing—not even empty space. Nothing—except the relational essence we call God. This God has been revealed to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the relationship between them is what we know as love. But in that immaterial beginning, God...