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‘Thanks be to God!’

Posted December 6th, 2022

“Who are humans that you are mindful of them,” the psalmist asks of the Almighty. “Mortals that you care for them?” It’s something to think about this New Year’s Day. I too wonder why God continues to cast God’s lot with us, and with me personally. Of late, with wars and climate change and gun violence, we haven’t given God much to be excited about.

Bless, do not curse, changes

Posted July 21st, 2022

“Seems like changes come faster and faster all the time!” My grandmother, who was born in 1904, told me this one day, as she described her youth without cars and then astronauts on the moon six decades later. Some of the changes over her 97 years were unwelcome. She never did buy a microwave. Other changes, like the “www” in her morning newspaper ads, intrigued her.