Letting go and letting God can sometimes sound as if you are being asked to give up all control of your life. Actually, the opposite is true! In truth it means surrendering your humanness and turning ...

Dan O’Connor is pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in Greenfield. This weekly column is written by local clergy members. I recently celebrated my 60th birthday. I don’t know what it is about the number ...

I have always had a problem with “taking control” of things. Often instead of asking for help, I barrel on and usually make things worse. I forget that I do not have to be in control all the time. Do ...

Trusting in the Lord has made my life both easier and harder. Not long before his death, Henri Nouwen wrote in Sabbatical Journeys about some friends who were trapeze artists. They shared with Nouwen ...

Whatever struggles you’re facing, it’s pretty simple to start every morning with these five words … “Let Go and Let God.” Eleanor Roosevelt believed many years ago that “if you lose faith, you lose ...

When a mother giraffe gives birth, she does so standing up. So her calf’s first act is to fall 6 feet to the ground, crash landing on his face. Then, as if such an arrival wasn’t harsh enough, the ...

Have you ever had trouble with the ‘Let go and let God’ approach? I have been having my challenges with it lately. Maybe this might help some of you. The premise is allowing others to subtlety take ...

Today is truly a day that the Lord has made, and it’s apparent to me that as the world gets more and more complicated, the word of God gets easier to understand. I oftentimes get reminded of the power ...