Star for the Journey

traditions

  • What My Father Left Behind

    “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.” — Exodus 20:12 Tomorrow would have been my dad’s eighty-sixth birthday. He has been gone three years now, and birthdays have a way of making absence feel different. They bring back memories, certainly,…

  • Thanksgiving and the Sacrifice of Gratitude

    If you look around this time of year, it almost feels like Thanksgiving is getting smaller. Store shelves leap from skeletons to snowmen, from cobwebs to candy canes, and somewhere in the middle there’s this quiet little day about gratitude that can easily get squeezed out. No costumes, no glittering lights, no marketing mascot to…