As we share our feelings of dread and sadness in prayer, we ask God to lift us up to a place of gladness.

For people of faith, it can be hard not to view worry as some kind of personal failure.

There are many people who have gone before us, both in our biological and spiritual families, who have quietly and obscurely served God, loved others, and increased the amount of good in the world.

Whatever else the virgin birth may be, it doesn’t represent the domestication of the divine.

What, though, if we constructed a boundary between our time and God’s, and made time stop?