That's a quote from an old hymn, "Blessed Assurance". Once in a while old hymns like this one emerge in my consciousness. My favorite hymn of all time is "For the Beauty of the Earth". I still remember singing this as a very small child and being moved by the words...

(*** A young woman contacted me the other day about his cartoon that was originally a white couple. She and her husband are Jamaican with dreads and she wondered if I could make the couple look like them. She sent an adorable photo of them. She also wanted him to say...

Here's a little exercise, and I'd love to hear about some of the results! Let us know. Here it is. "Get Angry":

Unlike all of you, I have some bad habits. They are your typical sins that I have tended to fall into when I'm going through a difficult time. They are: drinking too much; smoking too much; and being horny too much. It's not that there's anything morally wrong with...

I have a few scriptures that I will never forget. I still treasure them. Psalm 39:2 was always important to me: "My heart grew hot within me, and as I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue." Basically, David talks about how at times he was so upset...

I had a conversation with a woman recently who was very sad that I was no longer going to church. She was even crying as she tried to express the heart of Jesus that not all churches were bad, that he sees my pain and wants me to heal from my hurt and let my wounds...

For many of us, the church was a place of very unnatural and complicated relationships. In fact, often our relationships were codependent where jealousy, envy and competition was rampant. In such contexts feelings of exclusion, being ignored, unappreciated or needing...