Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I don’t call that insanity. I call it faith. There’s a story in the gospel of Luke where Jesus is sitting in Simon Peter’s boat speaking to a crowd along a lakeshore. When he finishes preaching, he tells Simon to put the boat out into deep water and let the nets down for a catch. “Simon answered, ‘Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets’” (Luke 5:5). …
Faith in Darkness and Light
I often wonder what this day was like for the disciples. Jesus – their teacher, leader, Messiah – was dead. The earth hadn’t shaken yet, and the stone was still firmly in place. I wonder if they felt betrayed, lost, confused, scared. They were huddled together on Sunday, but did they isolate themselves on Saturday? There was no hint that they remembered Jesus’s words – those that promised He would rise again, that this was not the end. I’m guessing it felt like the end. And moms there are times in our lives that everything around us looks hopeless. Times …