It’s not a new story. I’m sure many of you may have already heard or read some version of it before. I have, but when I came across it again in preparing for this week’s message, it grabbed my attention.    Let’s begin with the tale itself:   There was […]

With Father’s Day approaching, my goal this week was to inspire you with a story that has some relevancy to the occasion, yet with somewhat of a twist. The motivation for my choosing this particular tale penned by author Elizabeth Harrison is the basic truism that it is not flesh […]

The great Russian author Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”    We all experience loss at some time or another and, feeling that, we naturally […]