Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read Psalm 30 (NRSV) I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up, and did not let my foes rejoice over me. O LORD my God, I […]

Well, here we are again. As I write this column, our nation—and in fact, much of the world—reels from the news out of Orlando, Florida. Fifty persons dead. More than fifty wounded. Hundreds, if not thousands of friends and family members suddenly left without relationships they had cherished. I suppose one might argue that there […]