Tag: Love

The Crossroads – A Short Story

This post is a short story that was originally written for and posted at Idylls for the King, a Christian Literary blog I contribute to (which is currently on summer hiatus). I’ve been out of town most of this past week and am heading out...

Faith, Hope, Love – A Poem

One of my favorite verses is 1 Corinthians 13:13 – “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” It’s a short verse, but it is so powerful. It sums up what is most important in the Christian...

Traits of a Friend: Faith, Hope, and Love – My Tuesday Three

I was going to write that I decided to do something a little different for My Tuesday Three today, but then I realized there was no answer to the question, “different from what?” This blog theme has already involved so much variety – from three...

$76 Billion Could Provide a Lot of Shelter

I attended a conference session yesterday about mobile devices. The speaker commented that Apple recently announced that it has $76 billion cash on hand. He also mentioned that Apple may be releasing the iPad 3 this year, even though they just released the iPad 2...

Lamentations 4 – Trusting in God Regardless of Circumstances

Although I normally post a Psalm on Sunday, this past week I was reading through Lamentations and found that chapter 3 of that short book fit so perfectly with some of the other posts I have been writing lately, especially some of my poetry. So...

Children – A Poem

My son is one of the greatest blessings I have ever known. I often hear parents complain about how terrible their teenagers are, but I really can’t relate because my son is the most generous, kind, and loving person I know. He does sometimes annoy...

Blinded, But Now I See – A Poem

Blinded, But Now I See Peering through the darkness Nothing can I see Complete and utter aloneness Is all there is for me Waiting in the darkness Believing I will always be Lost in desperation Never my God to see Broken in the darkness No...

People Who Loved – My Tuesday Three

There have been a lot of people in my life who have been instrumental in helping to develop my faith in Christ. Without some of them, I would have been one of the lost youth of our nation that I wrote about yesterday. Today I...

Are the Youth of Our Nation a Lost Generation?

Last Saturday I was getting ready to go to the farmers’ market with my friend when a song by P.O.D. called “Youth of the Nation” came on my iPod. As I listened, I knew that this song would be the basis of my Music Monday...