Letting go and letting God can sometimes sound as if you are being asked to give up all control of your life. Actually, the opposite is true! In truth it means surrendering your humanness and turning ...

Dan O’Connor is pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in Greenfield. This weekly column is written by local clergy members. I recently celebrated my 60th birthday. I don’t know what it is about the number ...

I have always had a problem with “taking control” of things. Often instead of asking for help, I barrel on and usually make things worse. I forget that I do not have to be in control all the time. Do ...

Trusting in the Lord has made my life both easier and harder. Not long before his death, Henri Nouwen wrote in Sabbatical Journeys about some friends who were trapeze artists. They shared with Nouwen ...

When a mother giraffe gives birth, she does so standing up. So her calf’s first act is to fall 6 feet to the ground, crash landing on his face. Then, as if such an arrival wasn’t harsh enough, the ...

2020 was a year we'd probably like to bury deep under the sea. Its stormy arrival gradually picked up the tempo, eventually turning into an out-of-control tsunami. And yet, surprisingly, this ...

Is something robbing you of your peace of mind? I'm reminded of a narrative I once read about two boxes. God asked a woman to put all her worries in a black box and all her joys in a white one. She ...