In Lean Times… Keep Your Heart Soft… by Giving

“Poverty” by Picasso, 1903 Although I am not a huge fan of Picasso, I do like his work during the “blue period” like the above painting. This one captures the stain, degradation, humility, and “blueness” of what poverty must be like. I say “must be like” because I have never suffered like this. I have never…

Pouch of Myrrh

  Myrrh for a pouch… My beloved is to me a pouch of myrrh which lies all night between my breasts. –Song of Songs 1:13 A few years ago, I wept through a message, delivered at my home church, by Gary Wiens on the above Scripture. I am still moved to tears when I remember his…

No Need for Kleenex

Grab a kleenex, this’ll make you cry–green tears that is. Millionaire, Jim Sesenbrenner, heir to the Kimberly-Clark fortune–or all the kleenex in the known world–just won the lottery.  Again!