Lent

“A ‘positive thinking’ person may refuse to look at anything that is painful or uncomfortable, especially the painful and uncomfortable things within himself. A faithful person may endure pain, embrace discomfort, confront wickedness, repent desperately of his sin, weep over what is sorrowful, hate what is evil, and still have joy — a joy much

The timing of my book’s website crashing and my subsequent efforts to get a whole new site and blog up and running is seeming rather serendipitous to me now – it being less than a week before Lent. Years ago, I was chatting with a woman I had never met, but who had just finished