I was disappointed to be told, on my first day of Spanish class in my freshman year of high school, that my name, Sheryl, was an “American concoction”. My teacher was giving each student the Spanish counterpart to their English name, and when she got to me she was stumped. According to her, my name was an “American concoction”, so she assigned me a random Spanish name for the rest of the year. How disappointing to not be called by my real name,…
Last week, we looked at the power of one word. With the word “Daughter”, Jesus restored status and hope to one who had been cast aside and was hopeless. Today, we will try and grasp the power and magnitude of two words. These two words are simple and yet, we find what they command us to do almost impossible.
When we left the scene in Luke 8, the woman who grasped the robe of Jesus had been immediately healed. But the story started with a man – Jarius, who was an important…
The text came to me but the desired parent at the moment was my husband.
“Is Dad busy?”
“Hang on, let me get him for you.”
We often laugh at the “division of labor” that has evolved with our almost 21 year old son. I get the calls and texts that are relationship driven. Bill oversees the scientific and technology department. The two guys can talk for hours about the next computer upgrade or apps they share on their iPhones. And since William changed his major to Pharmacy, thus following in his father’s…