In moments of heartbreak we need reassurance that God, our Father-Mother, remembers us, cares for us—and this comfort can be ours if we ask for it with humble expectation.
Recently, after a period of hard work involving the meeting of multiple responsibilities, I felt burdened and strongly in need of spiritual refreshment.
How easy it is to let character and dispositional faults pass unnoticed, to ignore minor lapses of omission or commission, which, if left uncorrected, darken and disturb thought and lead to discord in our bodies and in our relationship with others.
When our attorney was drawing an important legal contract for our firm, I asked him why he found it necessary to restate several items in such simple, elementary terms.
How a traveler in the desert must long for a thread of green vegetation, the smallest patch of shade, the glint of water! In a psalm attributed to David in the wilderness of Judah, the Psalmist uses this vivid image to describe his longing for God: "My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.
Sitting on the deck of my island hillside home one day, gazing out on a tranquil blue sea, I thought how very grateful I am to God for His tender, loving care.
