Diane M. Houdek

Whether we’re traveling or at home, the one thing we know is that God is with us.

We know how fragile newborn life can be. And we know that these tiny lives can still be lost, even with all the technological advances of our own century.

Somewhere in the course of a childhood or a lifetime, we learn to balance expectations and reality.

Knowing that God not only knows but experienced what it was to be a human being should give us patience with our weakness and joy in our strength.

One of our deepest longings as human beings, as social beings, is to be understood even in our most perplexing and difficult moments.

Advent begins quietly, with the lighting of the first candle on the Advent wreath.