BLOGS

I don’t know what put the idea in my head, but I assume it was one of my father’s stories about making maple syrup as a teenager. Or maybe it was simply that it allowed him to buy a nice car in his teens.

I knew this conversation was going to happen eventually, but when it did, I was not totally prepared.

We live in an increasingly noisy world. We are bombarded with honking horns, telephone jangles, cars pumping along with the drumbeat blaring from inside the cab, people yelling at the top of their lungs at someone who stepped wrongfully into his or her space.

This month, literary lovers around the world remember a man who inspired reading in children one rhyme at a time. Theodor Seuss Geisel, more commonly known as Dr. Seuss, passed away in 1991, but his beloved books continue to live on.

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. —Philippians 4:4 (KJV)

Lately, I have been puzzled at the commandment the Lord gives us to rejoice. What does it really mean? How is it different from gratitude?