Jesus tells us to love our enemies. Not an easy task for a prideful people. We want the people who cause us harm or do us wrong to receive a swift and just punishment. I don’t think that’s an inherently bad thing but we have a means for that punishment ...

PSALM 40:1-4 –I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in ...

“Don’t touch that pie,” my mother said. “I’ve made it for when the company comes tonight.”  But my stomach and my palate cried out, “You’ve got to have that pie. You can’t live without it.”  So, when Mother went outside to do a task in the yard, I cut myself ...