Reason for Hope

Author James Branch Cabell once wrote, “The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.” I’ve always gotten a chuckle out of that quote. And honestly… some days it feels a little too accurate. Turn on the news for five minutes and you’ll find plenty of reasons to […]
An Empty Tomb

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering […]
The Opposite of Presence

(From a “Slice of Infinity” blog by Jill Carattini) In a poem titled “Moments of Joy” Denise Levertov tells the story of an old scholar who takes a room on the next street down from his grown children—“the better to concentrate on his unending work, his word, his world.” And though he comes and goes […]