Have you ever heard this one: “God won’t give you more than you can handle?” Oops. It’s not in the Bible. In fact, I’d suggest that is a particularly cruel misquote of scripture–my experience has been that God often gives us more than we can handle because it is in those times that we really Continue reading

There’s nothing like being the youngest in a large family. I speak from experience. My older siblings often made sport of picking on me. They never sold me to a band of traveling gypsies—but that’s only because no bands of traveling gypsies happened through our neighborhood. Joseph’s brothers did. And it wasn’t a joking matter. Continue reading