Crosswalk: The Devotional

These are tears of being overwhelmed by the enormity of the Giver and the immensity of a gift to a person consumed with self-interest who has forgotten innocence.

"Rejoice with those who rejoice" is a pretty easy command... except when it isn't.

Instead, you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, then we will live and also do this or that (James 4: 5). "You can be anything you want when you grow up, sweetie..."

How often do we resign ourselves to the "tyranny of the urgent"?

Peter suggests that we can suffer for doing good, or we can suffer for doing bad. Either way, though, we suffer.