You gave me room when I was in distress...You have put gladness in my heart...I will lie down and sleep in peace. (Psalm 4) Can you tell me a time when someone has "invaded" your space (physically or emotionally)? How did you respond? As teenagers we celebrated those rituals of passage as a time of growth — braces removed, going into high school, getting our driver's license, getting a part time job to provide our gas money, going to the prom, planning for what was after high

When I was a youth, I remember going to my grandparents on Saturday evenings and watching "Hee Haw." Yes, I am that old, and if you have watched the show or heard of it, then so are you! If you have not, well, you missed quite an experience. You had comedy sketches where people popped up in a corn field to throw out one-liners, bluegrass and country music, and my favorite — the guys who sang a particular song every week — Gloom, despair, and agony on me; deep dark depression

Once, at a national meeting of college student-services professionals, a distinguished dean of students was leading a workshop, talking of things he'd learned on the job. He was remarking on the fact that, wherever you go in American higher education, there's one gripe you're certain to hear from the student body. It's about the food in the dining hall. As a man whose job it was to make the life of students more comfortable, the dean shared how, over the years, he had convene

These words from Mark Batterson are quite apropos as we begin a new year. Batterson was referring to a trip he took to the Galapagos islands in which he read the above words on a Sprite can! As he stated, "The trip was one adventure after another...I think those words resonate with one of our deepest longings in the human heart — the longing for adventure." Now you may be saying, "One adventure after another is just not good for me right now." However, hear me out. What would