Of all the 10 Commandments, the one about Honoring your mother is the first that carries a promise – that you’ll enjoy long life on the earth if you pay attention. Listen to your mother; she paid a price to bring you into the world and she knows a thing or two, so at least show some respect. My new collection of H2OPE stories honors ten women, some of them mothers. One of them was a 21st century mother and…
Happy Ascension Day 2018. Forty days after the resurrection and ten days until Pentecost, the church celebrates the ascension of Jesus. It is the culmination of his Advent, when the Word became flesh to dwell among us, to share human life and suffer human injustice and shame – to free us from sin and to transform us to be like him. What he began, he brought to completion and returned in triumph to heaven. The ancient prophecy said “he took captivity…