gratitude

Babies Are a Big Blessing

Grant Van Leuven
Dec 29, 2020
[Originally submitted in December of 2019, but retracted; see footnote number six.] Two weeks ago my wife went to Urgent Care during our morning Sabbath service to get important treatment. When she returned while I was leading our singing of the closing Psalm, she jubilantly waved at me through the...

A Different Kind of Profanity

David Prince
Dec 11, 2018
What would you do if one of your children walked in your house and spoke a string of four-letter words? What would you do if one of your children walked in your house grumbling? I fear that most of us would drop everything and confront their intolerable use of four-letter words (and rightly so) but...

Scarcity and Abundance

Michael P Jensen
Sep 17, 2015
In recent decades, Western culture has developed what the business analysts might call a 'scarcity mindset'. There are good reasons for this of course. For a long time, we've been behaving like a teenager in a bedroom, consuming non-renewable energy sources, polluting the planet, and degrading the...

Finding Gratitude in Unlikely Places: A Thanksgiving Reflection

Pierce T. Hibbs
Nov 26, 2014
"My cup overflows." - Ps 23:5 Within Christian circles, it seems verboten to mention death and thanks in the same sentence, which is a shame, really. Death, no doubt, is an evil intrusion on God's good order, and, as Dylan Thomas wrote, we have every reason to rage against the dying of the light...

Finding Gratitude in Unlikely Places: A Thanksgiving Reflection

Pierce T. Hibbs
Nov 26, 2014
"My cup overflows." - Ps 23:5 Within Christian circles, it seems verboten to mention death and thanks in the same sentence, which is a shame, really. Death, no doubt, is an evil intrusion on God's good order, and, as Dylan Thomas wrote, we have every reason to rage against the dying of the light...