Genesis 39 “Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.   The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.   When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did,   Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in ch

A few years ago I read an article about a book by Erica Commissar about the importance of a mother for her infant child. I’ve always been told that the mother’s touch was essential for a child to develop and that some children actually die if they are not caressed, touched and loved.  But this book argues that the mom’s intimate presence with the baby is quite important for the first three years of the child’s development, in a way a man or father could never equal.  I neve

Everyone of us in this room has a dream….or at least a hankering and yearning for good things to come our way—-tomorrow, next, or at some point. We all have hopes for “something good” to happen.  It’s healthy to have “hope” for a better life and a happy heart.  Many of us work hard, pray even harder, and pine for rest, the pleasure of seeing our efforts result in a good life for us—-and for those that we love. Now that my sons are reaching adulthood, I talk often to them abou