Peering Through Life's Window

 Seeing the big yellow buses rumble through my neighborhood picking up children waiting at their stops took me back in time to when my daughter attended school. I recalled a popular, spiritual piece of jewelry kids wore in the nineties -- WWJD bracelets. The acronym stood for What Would Jesus Do?  Some youngsters stacked them up their arms. When they went to school, sports arenas or friends' homes, the bracelets kept Jesus' teachings close to them. For instance, if one of the young men found himself in a situation where he grew angry and wanted to punch someone in the nose, he had a bracelet to remind him that Christians should be “…quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” (James 1: 19 - 20).    Perhaps one of the young ladies heard gossip about a friend. A bracelet she wore might have Scripture from James 1:26: “If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep ...

 The World Needs Caring Hearts The woman sobbed as she wound her way to the restaurant’s check-out stand.  The cooks working behind the counters and customers turned their heads, each probably wondering what had happened. When our server visited our table I asked, “What was wrong with the woman crying?”  The cute, petite young lady’s eyes turned sad. “She has to bury her mother in two days.” I said a prayer for the grieving person. The servers and people who run the restaurant are so kind. If they don’t see a regular customer for a while, when the patron returns, they ask, “Are you okay?” The lady probably shared her sorrow with one of the servers and grief overcame her, but why did this poor woman have to go to a restaurant to find sympathy? Are we so connected to our cell phones and tablets that friendship in person doesn’t exist? Or are we too busy to make time for others?    The Upset Patient Just two weeks earlier a young lady spoke to me about an incident ...