Tag Archives: Compassion

Don’t Make Your Job Complicated—Obedience is Simple. Jeremiah 22:3.

What is your job description? Some are clearly defined: ride the back of the trash truck and empty trash cans into the truck at each stop. Others are loosely defined: be my personal assistant, show up at 8 every morning and do whatever I ask until I send you home. What is the job descriptionContinue reading “Don’t Make Your Job Complicated—Obedience is Simple. Jeremiah 22:3.”

Oh Soul, Are You Weary and Troubled?

All of us know weariness.  All of us have been tired, exhausted, depressed, and worn down by grief and struggles.  But does God become weary? Do our troubles affect him, or is he impervious? Yes, our problems affect God. When the children of Israel cried out to God about their slavery in Egypt, He saidContinue reading “Oh Soul, Are You Weary and Troubled?”

Foreigners.

In the 1980s, Sharpstown High School welcomed a sudden influx of refugees fleeing the Communist government of Vietnam.  The students showed up knowing no English and carrying a pass that entitled them to free lunches.  Every day three of the loudest non-English speaking Vietnamese girls would cut the line in the lunch room to grabContinue reading “Foreigners.”