mark from psalm 42

We are people of desire. We want things. We long for things. It is primal to our nature to yearn. As Saint Augustine reflected, “The whole life of the good Christian is a holy longing. . . . That is o...

Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

My friend Wendy calls the incremental disappointments we endure over the years “the slow leak of life.”

Have you ever played in a swimming pool and tried to hold a beach ball under the surface? Its tendency-you might even say its penchant and desire-is to rise to the surface. It is “restless” when it is...