courage – The Flatpickin' Pilgrim's Progress

Adapted from my newsletter column to the church this week at http://www.vhbc.com: As I was looking over past writings and came upon this one, from

Death Grief and Hope: Songs for the Shadows

We must face our losses. Courage does not spare us from them. Courage’s work begins at the other end of honest acknowledgement. Grief

Someone asked me for this short paragraph from my sermon yesterday. I thought I might as well share it with you all, for what it’s

I woke up to the bad news from Brussels, Belgium today. We are so numbed to the violence on our globe, we have to wonder