What If the Problem Is Where I’m Standing?
There are prayers that become more complicated the longer we pray them. “Lord, let me see” has become one of those prayers for me. It sounded simple enough when I first began praying it. Perhaps that...
What Do I Miss When I Refuse to Be Interrupted?
I have always thought of attention as something I give. I pay attention to a conversation. I pay attention when I read Scripture. I try to pay attention to the people around me rather than moving through...
What Have I Already Decided I Know?
I have been thinking lately about how quickly we finish stories—not necessarily the stories we read, but the stories unfolding around us. We see a news story on TV about a woman who has killed her children,...