Verses like Psalm 121:7 can make us squirm: “YHWH will keep you from all harm. He will watch over your life” Does YHWH, in fact, keep bad things from happening to us? Does it really seem like he “keeps us from all harm”? If you have spent any time at all in the...
The last time I babysat for the Halvorsons, Mikey rolled off the changing table. It was all my fault. A junior higher at the time, I was waiting for a friend to call. When the phone rang a room away, I (stupidly) raced to answer it. Before I could tell my friend I’d...
In one of my darker seasons, I attended a church with Stephen Ministers, laypeople trained to walk alongside those experiencing hard times. My Stephen Minister and I went for long walks often. I did most of the talking, and the summary of what I said, week after week,...
“From whence comes my help?” Our pup Zuzu is a curious creature who likes to sniff, well, everything. When she pokes her nose into whatever we’re doing (or trying to do), we joke that she’s “helping”—which, of course, she is not. Mostly, she’s in the way. That’s often...
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