In response to challenges that answers to prayer are nothing more than coincidence, Bishop William Temple said, “When I pray coincidences happen, when I don’t they don’t.” I certainly agree with the first half of Temple’s response—coincidences definitely happen more frequently when I pray. But sometimes they also happen when…
Shade, shelter, stronghold…buckler, shield, and bulwark. Sometimes we need to be reminded that we are triple protected by triune love. I think you will love the following sentences from a Celtic devotional that I have recently been pondering: “God the Father is the shield beneath which we hide our fragile…
