Dear Friends: There will be no message next week for Monday, October 3, because of travel. I’ll be on the lookout for new stories to share with you. Father give me my share of the property that will belong to me (Lk 15:12). Father . . . make me like one of your hired men […]
KentHansen
A Word of Grace – September 19, 2011
Dear Friends: Rummaging around the Word of Grace archives this weekend, I came across a 2001 message that was originally an entry in my journal during March of that year. It describes the last visit that I had with my parents in their own home before illness and the advance of years brought their lives […]
A Word of Grace – September 12, 2011
Dear Friends: The noise leading up to the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks puts me in mind of Solomon’s caution in Ecclesiastes 5:2: “Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let […]
A Word of Grace – September 6, 2011
Dear Friends: It was breathtaking in June to descend off of the freeway and plunge like a diving submarine into the royal purple sea of jacaranda trees that cover my downtown neighborhood. They are messy trees, carpeting sidewalks and lawns with petals and spraying sticky sap that glazes our vehicles like cheap doughnuts. Now in […]
A Word of Grace – July 11, 2011
Dear Friends: I’ve seen a few fights in my time over change. The worst of them involved religious traditions or institutional reorganizations. It is hard for men and women who believe they are doing God’s work to understand that he might have something new and different in mind for them. It is easy to confuse […]