Posts from April 2023

I don’t like going to the doctor

I don’t really like going to the doctor. My doctor is a very nice person. Most of the time I don’t leave the doctor bruised or injured in any way. Most of what I don’t like about the doctor can be boiled down to one specific task of the doctor: diagnosis. Diagnosis is the process…

A deeper conversion

I heard someone use a term today that made me stop and think. Someone that I was talking to spoke of a time when the profoundness of their Christian faith reached a new level. They called this moment their “deeper conversion”. When I think about that as a category, I think about some times when…

Losing Our Wallets

I remember a song from the 1990’s that had the refrain, “Hope I never lose my wallet…” The song went through a list of the things that you could lose in this life: obviously your wallet, your hair, your direction, your mind, your sense, your youth, etc. The thing that the song doesn’t talk about…

Maundy

Not Monday. Not Mandy. Maundy. Taken from the Latin, “mandatum” = “to command.” The command? “Love one another as I have loved you.” The “I”? Jesus. Let that sink in. Love one another as Jesus has loved you. As Jesus has.  Stooping at the feet of His disciples and washing their feet. Praying for them…