After I had begun thinking about this idea a few days ago, my friend, Stephanie McLeskey, sent me a link to a blog by Ben Mullinax (see Endnotes for the link) which uses the story from Forrest Gump, at Jenny’s Grave, to make an intriguing case for having both a sense of purpose and the…

While I’ve come to the end of my reflections on the importance and risks of Hope, I’m certainly aware that I exhausted neither all that could be said on the subject nor, in three examples, all of my own experience with hope in its various forms—although it’s certainly possible that I exhausted my readers!  But,…

In a sense, I’m picking up where I left off with my reflections on Ash Wednesday, in what has become something of a “Lenten journey.” And yet, when I started thinking and working on this, well over a month ago, perhaps I should have seen coming what we are now experiencing in the midst of…