Carie Grant

Our focus in the forgiveness of others is obviously the other person:  the cultivation of mercy and grace for the one who has hurt us.  But sometimes our forgiveness can feel incomplete.  That resentment can...

Anger can be our worst subject.  We show too much.  We show too little.  We point it in the wrong direction. In my family, it was important to shield the children from anything resembling anger. ...

Meme culture.  We increasingly live in a society that communicates via symbols: digital emojis express human emotion when we can’t see each other’s faces. A single cartoon image conveys layers of political commentary that used...

It’s really challenging to travel anywhere by committee.  “Too many cooks in the kitchen” is the expression.  I was thinking that as my mother and I drove south, two old ladies with a lead foot...

Oh, I’m a people pleaser from way back.  I was a quiet kid with two high-performing older brothers, so a good way to get the focus back on me was to become indispensable to my...

I am the kind of person who takes shortcuts.  There is not a “hack” I haven’t tried, a corner I haven’t cut. I believe I can pray, while scrubbing dishes, while also performing deep lunges...

We’ve been working on creating light for a long time.  As the sun set, our ancestors were busy rubbing sticks together to create sparks and build a fire.  Later they graduated to striking flint, lighting...

Nehemiah was a Jewish exile – but for an exile, he had a great job.  He was not out digging ditches or threshing grain in the hot sun.  Instead, he worked within the cool halls...

Imagine the horror Cain felt.  Just a few minutes earlier, there was a blind rush of fury as he carried out his plan to attack his brother.  For a brief moment, there was satisfaction.  But...

Fun fact: I met Allen Ginsberg in front of the Denver Public Library years ago.  He was walking out, and I nearly walked into him.  My eyes bulged.  I looked around for confirmation that somebody...

Imagine the slow clip-clop of donkey hooves as Jesus, surrounded by cheering crowds, rode into Jerusalem! They saw a perfect vision of how they expected their King to arrive.  They must have been ecstatic!  Zechariah...

…the master of all I survey My mother just celebrated her 93rd birthday.  She is in stage 4 congestive heart failure.  Scoliosis, along with a raging case of polio as a young woman, left her...