Ponderings

What is your goal in life? Many of us would struggle with answering that question because we would have difficulty responding in the singular. We all have goals in life: family, friends, careers, health, comfort, and, of course, happiness. Hopefully, faith fits in there somewhere.

Our meditation ends, for now, our look into the words of several of the Old Testament minor prophets. Their words, spoken so long ago, leap off the pages of their books and speak to our world today just as vividly as they did to theirs.

What a beautiful morning! (I could’ve put an “O” in front of that sentence and stuck a song about Oklahoma in your head for the day … or maybe I just did!). I live in Indiana all year for the weather we’re having right now.

Today, we pause to observe a holiday that honors the work of human hands and the dignity of labor. For many, it’s a day off: a cookout, a weekend of special activities, and a final taste of summer. But beneath the long weekend lies a