Pause+Pray

Reflect Once a year, we celebrate our veterans. We tell veterans we meet, “Thank you for your service.” Yet for many of these same veterans, each day is an experience of isolation and alienation. As one veteran said to me, ...

Jesus knows what it feels like to be abandoned, to be cast out by friends, to be left alone to pick up the pieces.

Jesus told his follows: “You are the light of the world. . . . Your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father” (Mt 5:14, 16). With humility, you can claim ...

Jealousy can creep into our lives so quickly. One moment we are admiring another’s gifts, and the next we are envious of them.

Today consider the words from Psalm 116: 1–2: “I love the Lord, who listened to my voice in supplication, who turned an ear to me on the day I called.”

Most of us have felt the very real sting of grief and the lingering ache of mourning after losing a loved one. But have you ever felt creeping dread of losing someone who is still with us? I know I ...