He got up and followed him

He got up and followed him. What was going through Matthew’s head when Jesus passed by, noticed him, and said, “Follow me”? As a tax collector, Matthew would have been held at arm’s length by his family and despised by his neighbors.  His...

Lead me in the path of your commands

Lead me in the path of your commands, for in it I delight. We have all been in situations in which we were being trained for something.  Perhaps it was a new job, a lesson in school, or a military commission.  In the course of our training, some commands became so...

With the upright is his friendship

With the upright is his friendship. Three children gaze at a painting of a ship on the water when they are suddenly sucked into the scene! For th rest of C.S. Lewis’ book “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, the children are no longer standing on the...

No Servant can serve two masters

Have you heard about the dying man who won the lottery?  Concerned that the excitement would be too much for him, the man’s family asked their parish priest to tell him the good news.  When the pastor told the man that he had won $10 million, the man replied,...

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