Healing Faith A reader by the name of Katherine recently e-mailed me. She had lost her husband, a man some years older than she, to multiple myeloma and Alzheimer’s disease. She is a Christian, and is struggling to make sense of his death, and the difficult questions of why God allows suffering. She writes, after…
Category: Prayer
The Prayer of Java
Recently, a friend brought up the subject of prayer, and how he was finding it a difficult learning experience. He is on a spiritual journey, and while he has not yet arrived (in my humble assessment), he is a pilgrim headed in the right direction. The subject of prayer is a fascinating one for me…
When Waters Break
Archives When waters break, their power spent in fine mist on the breeze, to thus retreat and gather up and hurl again against those jagged boulders yet unfazed; What purpose, they, whose molten age in fiercest shapes did freeze, their faces polished now by salt and sand, igniting foaming fury upward raised? And why the…