Abandonment is one of the greatest losses a human may experience. True, there are other losses that can scar us. Coming home to find we’ve been robbed produces a feeling of violation, particularly if the robbery includes the loss of objects we associate with our past. And we all know children whose lives were dreadfully…

Let us prefer nothing to the love of Christ; And may he bring us all to everlasting life. Brothers and sisters, we come together this Easter Day to celebrate. Christ is risen, and we affirm: “The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!” We know that this is a happy day, a day to put on our…

All of the Resurrection stories have one thing in common. God does something so strange and singular in nature that there is no way to explain what happened. And this strange thing that God does has, as its consequence, either faith, hope, and love, or disbelief. All we can see are “snapshots” or anecdotes of…

The poet Maya Angelou, in her poem “Just like Job,” writes confidently of the strength an individual can draw upon in the face of adversity: My God,When my blanket was nothing but dew,Rags and bonesWere all I owned.I chanted Your nameJust like Job. Job, shrouded in the rags of repentance, assaulted by every brand of…