Letting go and letting God can sometimes sound as if you are being asked to give up all control of your life. Actually, the opposite is true! In truth it means surrendering your humanness and turning ...

Have you ever had trouble with the ‘Let go and let God’ approach? I have been having my challenges with it lately. Maybe this might help some of you. The premise is allowing others to subtlety take ...

"Two people from different worlds question the existence of GOD after death in their families. Who would know searching for a loss child would give them the answer they were looking for."Movie ...

Trusting in the Lord has made my life both easier and harder. Not long before his death, Henri Nouwen wrote in Sabbatical Journeys about some friends who were trapeze artists. They shared with Nouwen ...

How a helicopter mom learned the grace of hands-off parenting. My hands shook as I packed my sons’ brand-new lunchboxes. At ages 6 and 9, they were headed off to their first day of school after years ...

Dan O’Connor is pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in Greenfield. This weekly column is written by local clergy members. I recently celebrated my 60th birthday. I don’t know what it is about the number ...