A young woman went to her mother and told her, “Life is hard. I don’t know how I’m going t make it. I want to give up. I’m tired of fighting and struggling.” Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the water came to a boil. In the first she placed carrots; in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. Read More
Category: Hope
Deepest Desire
What is your deepest desire? What do you long for at the core of your being? Do you covet a marriage that is solid and makes you happy? To be loved unconditionally? Or finding the job that you love to do that offers a great salary and full benefits? What about good health with the vitality of youth? Do you desire a body that is perfect in shape? What if your loved ones did not have difficulties to battle? Or what if your aging parents didn’t have to suffer or be alone? Do you yearn for a world without crime Read More
What do We Convey by What We Say?
What do we convey by what we say or don’t say or by our actions? What kind of witness are we? What is a witness anyway? According to Random House College Dictionary, witness is: 1) to see or know by personal presence and perception; 2) to be present at an occurrence as a formal witness, spectator, bystander; 3) to bear witness to, testify to, give or afford evidence of. The gospel writer John says of Jesus, “What Jesus has seen and heard, of that He bears witness, and no man receives His witness. He who has received His witness has Read More