When worry comes knocking

    Dear Friends: Several people have asked me for ideas on dealing with anxiety and worry. My first advice is to pray. This is not a “please give me…” prayer so much as a conversation with a friend. “God, I am worried, scared, feeling powerless. Help me.”...

I stopped singing…

  Dear Friends: Today, I offer a brief story and a poem. During the pandemic, when we were all shut up and shut down, for some reason I wasn’t even aware of, I stopped singing.  Times I would have normally belted out a hymn (in church, in the car, in the...