A way to live your mission at home: Never forget God wills our health.  When anyone at home is ill, pray as well as call the doctor.  Use all of God’s gifts for our healing. Based on Luke 10:11-17 [A way to live your mission at home suggested by a reading from the Revised Common […]

A way to live at home: The views and convictions of families and of  individual family members are often challenged.  To change can be courageous, not weak. Base on Acts 11:1-18 [A way to live at home suggested by a reading for many churches for The Fifth Sunday of Easter for 4/24/16.  The apostles hear […]

A way to live at home: Parents need to try to forgive fully to begin to overcome any rebellion of their offspring. Based on Luke 15:1-3,11b-32 [A way to live at home suggested by a reading for many churches for The Fourth Sunday of Lent for 3/6/16.  Asking for his inheritance before his father dies is […]

A way to live at home: How painful it is when a family member does not love you.  You are tempted to hurt back; or to center only on being hurt.  Rather, look for ways to say over and over I still care for you and am ready to talk whenever you are. Based on […]

For a way to live John 21:19b-24 with family and friends: Among family and friends decisions about each other are hard to make and for the others hard to accept.  Perhaps, all need the grace to let each other be. [A way to live John 21:19b-24 with family and friends; suggested by one of the readings in many […]

Couples can quarrel a lot.  What is the basic value of each or to whom or what is each member committed?  Compromises are easier to make when both are directed by the same or similar values, goals, or heroes. [A way to live John 18:33-37, one of the readings in many churches for the Last […]

To marry is a full commitment of yourself to another person, no marriage is perfect.  Face your differences.  Learn to live with them.  And grow.  You will find help at hand and from beyond. [A way to live Mark 10:2-16, one of the readings in many churches for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost from the Revised Common Lectionary […]

We tend to avoid bad news because it is hard to hear.  Even our efforts to dodge the truth can lead us to learning something.  How open are we to living and learning as we go like a child? [A way to live Mark 9:34-47  from the reading in many churches for 9/20/15, Seventeenth Sunday after […]

Love and justice cost us. Should we give up a costly path we may be on? No.  Hang in there and you will find unexpected help and strength. [A way to live Mark 8:27-38 from the reading in many churches for 9/13/15, the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost.  Peter sees Jesus as the long awaited deliverer of Israel, the […]

Our home life shapes how we live.  With children, homes do well to be moving away from too much correction and moving toward freedom within limits, more praise, lots of conversation, and many signs of affection.  The same movement between adults in the home will also work wonders.  And the world will be a better […]