Listening for Laughter
Yesterday I stepped into the backyard just to look around and stand in the sun. Behind us I heard children playing and the unmitigated sound of joyful laughter. It was the kind of laughter that held...
Category: Thinking About God
A Stubborn Sense of Place: Hebrews 11: 8-16
I imagine that Abraham thought of home, not to go back there, but because it was the only measure he had in his experience from which he could imagine the future. That’s the way we are. We only have our past and it is in terms of the best of those times that we think about the future. How else can we think of heaven except in terms of the past?