Goodbyes aren’t easy, especially if the one leaving will be gone long. Lou Gehrig, one of the all-time great baseball players, said goodbye at Yankee Stadium in June of 1939. His body was being ravaged by disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease that would later bear his name. With tears in his eyes, he…
People seldom begin a vacation without carefully plotting an intended course of travel. Sadly, too many people do not consider life as an adventure to be carefully mapped out prior to takeoff. As Christians, we need to ask ourselves what we expect to receive from life for the coming year and, more important, what we…