by Karen Merry | Feb 26, 2021 | Always & Forever
Once again, we are hit with the exposure of a major Christian leader who has engaged for decades in deeply egregious and sinful behavior, abusing his power and spiritual authority over those who trusted him. The ripples of pain are being felt throughout the world. By...
by Karen Merry | Feb 23, 2021 | Always & Forever
They were friends, those Five. Committed to each other. And in hearing rumors that Jesus was nearby—having just returned to Capernaum from a whirl-wind trip filled with lepers, demons, and miracle healings—they came up with a brilliant idea. And so came the Five. To...
by Karen Merry | Feb 19, 2021 | Always & Forever
Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble. –Proverbs 17:17, The Message As I sit looking out my window in the middle of a grey, cold, Hungarian winter day, weather is on my mind. And I’m thinking about how we...
by Karen Merry | Feb 16, 2021 | Always & Forever
You know how you get a song bit stuck in your head—an earworm? It’s never the whole song, right? Just a phrase on an endless loop going round and round, popping into your head at the most inopportune moments in an especially annoying form of neuronal high-jacking! For...
by Karen Merry | Feb 12, 2021 | Always & Forever
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. –Robert Louis Stevenson One of my friends recently made a statement that kind of floored me. First I thought, “Whaaat?” and then I felt kind of...