“Hope in God.” “Have Faith.” “Hang in there — God’s got this!” For real? Are these phrases (which I hear so often now, with so much distress in the streets) — are these pious phrases just “opium for the masses,” as Karl Marx famously declared of religion? When I can’t get a break; when my […]
TRUST IN THE SLOW WORK OF GOD
They say that smells evoke memories better than anything else. Lily-of-the-valley brings back magical days of playing in a sandbox that was surrounded by a field of them, spread out beneath a shady maple. I cut handfuls of flower stalks and brought them to my mother to put in a vase. I’ll never forget the heady […]