• The Upward Call: Navigating Past, Present, and Future

    Looking Back: Beyond Nostalgia and Regret We often view the “good old days” through a filtered lens. While reminiscing brings comfort, there is a subtle danger in losing the context of days gone by. When we strip away the struggles of the past to remember only the simple things, we risk longing for a time…

  • “The Beginning of Sorrows” Death and Life

    A month or two before the pandemic, I was visiting a museum in New York City and I found myself totally engrossed in the image of a sculpture, a small pieta of Jesus, laying in repose after the crucifixion, with an angel on each side – one in mourning for our Lord’s death, the other…

  • Trusting in God

    “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”  Proverbs 3:5-6 Having grown up in a southern baptist church, I have fond memories of the old hymns, the classics, that we would sing in a…