Every year, I began the course I taught in Anatomy and Physiology at the George Washington University this way. Holding up a small spatula with a jagged split down its center, I asked the students to tell me what it was. They guessed the spatula easily, but what was the jagged division for? No one knew.Read More
Read Psalm 139: 1-18. Consider: For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. G.K. Chesterton wrote, “The whole difference between construction and creation is exactlyRead More
God doesn’t put us to the test. God takes us through the test. There is something about the fire of tribulation that melts and molds us into shapes of God’s own design. What new wholeness is God designing for you?Read More
Can God hear your plea in the middle of the world’s cacophony? If you felt sure God was listening to you in prayer, how would that affect the way you pray? How does it affect what you say? How you listen to God in prayer?Read More
The world often urges us to hurry along, yet we need only look to the example of our God who spent the seventh day resting from the work done in creation, not because God needed to take a breather, but because God knew we would.Read More
Thank you, God, for my heart, the magnificent organ that serves with such humility to distribute my life’s blood. Help me to care for it well so I can use it to respond to the needs of my world and to your calling on my life.Read More