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Can We Be Friends?
We don’t have to be best friends, but can’t we just get along? There are a lot of reasons for not liking people. Some of them make sense. After all, we reason, don’t I have the right to choose who I associate with? We divide so easily over masks versus no masks, covid shots versus no covid shots, gun control versus no gun control, Republican versus Democrat, conservative versus liberal, how to handle border control, Caucasians versus Black or Asian, marriage versus free love, disciplining children over letting the free spirit reign. (He will grow out of it). These differences can cause a lot of stress, irritation, and worst of…
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Why Isn’t Everything Gray?
Looking at the sunset last night, I began to wonder why we have so many beautiful colors in the rainbow. Why do we even have so many colors everywhere to enjoy? Why isn’t fruit and all of our food just one gray color? What difference would it make whether an apple was red or green or yellow? After all, it is just something to eat to keep us alive. God could have made one food for all…gray, kind of like mana from heaven for the Israelites as they crossed the desert. And how about all those dozens of colors of fish? Divers tell us that in the deepest depths…