... is not easy. And yet not forgiving can take an even greater toll on us than forgiving ever could. David Zersen, writing on the Internet, tells about a movie that some of you may have seen The Upside of Anger, starring Joan Allen and Kevin Kostner. Joan Allen plays the role of Terry, an angry housewife, with four daughters. Terry is angry because her husband has run off with his secretary to live in Sweden. As the plot unfolds, the viewer becomes involved in her relationships with her four daughters ...
... greatest counselor!’ And I say, ‘Ain’t it the truth.’”[4] Actually, it is not that glib, but it is that simple. All Allen is doing is listening with an understanding ear, an attentive ear, a safe ear, a caring ear. Some years ago, while serving my ... making him the ultimate wounded healer. So instead of singing, “God is Watching Us,” it may be better to sing the song performed by Joan Osborne, “What If God Was One of Us?”[7] For God became one of us in Jesus. This great truth of God being one ...
... the lost. Before Christ came, people speculated about the nature of God. Many believed that if, indeed, God did exist, He must be (as Woody Allen says) an “under-achiever.” God seemed to be distant and aloof from the world; too far removed from the world to care very much about ... Lutheran armies in the 1500s, drenching the countryside in blood; French Protestants getting massacred; witch trials from Joan of Arc to Salem, Massachusetts; and thousands of other grisly events in history.” The hero of the ...
... . For some vision has resulted in untold riches. The vision of the Carnegies and Vanderbilts. The vision of a Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Sam Walton. The vision of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Paul Allen. But for others the vision thing hasn't worked out so well in the world's valuation system. The vision of Joan of Arc got her burned at the stake. The vision of Martin Luther got him excommunicated from the church. The vision of Nelson Mandela got him a half-life in jail. Especially people with Night ...
... body of a man who died; nobody mourned, nobody cried, how he lived, how he fared, nobody knows, nobody cared.” Some are tender: “Gracie Allen and George Burns Together Again.” Some are instructive: “My dear friends, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I, as ... cobweb of lace; the price tag still on it was astronomical. Through his tears he looked at his sister-in-law and said, “Joan bought this the first time we went to New York about eight or nine years ago. She never wore it. She was saving ...
