midweek musings

Midweek Musing April 22, 2026 One of the hardest things Jesus asks us to do also sounds quite simple: do not worry. Indeed, worry is one of the things Jesus speaks directly about in his teaching. But it seems he also knew just how hard that would be for us. “Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life…” “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin…” “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s tro

Midweek Musing April 15, 2026 We live in an age of images. Memes, reels, graphics, short videos, emojis, and captions seem to carry so much of our communication now. We scroll quickly, laugh quickly, react quickly, like/share, and move on. Ours is, as I heard one commentator state, the age of the graphic. In one sense it seems to me we moved from pictures telling stories on cave walls to hieroglyphics to papyrus scrolls to the printing press and newspaper stories and suddenly