Scripture Reading: Psalm 42.1–11 The psalmists never faked a smile. “Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me?” (Psalm 42.5). Scripture leaves room for sorrow, and even for the songs that carry it. Ecclesiastes goes further: “Sorrow is better than laughter, for when a face is sad…
If things go as planned, Artemis II will launch today for a slingshot around the moon—and I, for one, have been watching every detail of this mission with the wide-eyed wonder of a child. There is something irreducibly majestic about the thought of human beings arcing through the void toward that pale light God hung…
I must admit a weakness. I am easily drawn to restoration videos — those small digital parables in which a skilled pair of hands takes something rusted, seized, and forgotten and brings it back to life. There is joy in watching neglect be reversed, and it is not a shallow pleasure. Something in us recognizes…