The Annunciation Gabriel came to Mary, and announced to her that she would bear the Messiah; and she said, “Let it be done to me as you say.” In the same way, Christ comes to us, asking to come in; and we must choose to let him in or not. Sometimes...

A friend once told me, “Will, you can go from 0 to Geek faster than anybody I know.” Let the reader beware. I’m a software engineer by profession. That means that my number one tool, the tool I spend hours a day using, is a text editor. Not a word...

…begin by making war against your lower self.

I like this short story a whole lot. Hat tip to Phil.

So we were at church today, and my two girls were fighting over who got to sit next to Mom. I finally pulled the more egregious offender (the five-year-old) onto my lap, facing away from her sister. She sat there for a while, sobbing; and then,...