Serving others reinforces the bond between believers

When Paul wri­tes about God’s cong­re­ga­ti­on to the cong­re-ga­ti­on of Co­rinth in Gree­ce, he re­fers to it as the body of Christ.

Blog: Supportive thoughts

I have mo­ved back to my child­hood home. I am sit­ting at the kitc­hen win­dow with my mot­her. My mot­her says:

French goes live

We all need a ton­gue: wit­hout it we could neit­her eat, nor speak. In Fin­nish we use the same word to re­fer both to our phy­si­cal ton­gue and to the lan­gu­a­ge that we speak.

Mother-daughter weekend

What do we do for a wee­kend with the girls? We talk and laugh and talk some more. We en­joy de­li­ci­ous me­als and some spe­ci­al tre­ats. And we talk again. We walk and drive around, loo­king at all the lo­ve­ly hou­ses. We shop for a win­ter coat for the mot­her and fai­ry lights for a sis­ter. We talk about what each of us has been doing and how the fall time has gone. What things we have scre­wed up, and what things we could ce­leb­ra­te and high-five.

Blog: My first letter to my future wife

I sent my first let­ter to my wife – then the tar­get of my dis­tant ad­mi­ra­ti­on – 50 ye­ars ago. We still have that let­ter, but I have not read it sin­ce I mai­led it. Now I de­ci­de to read it. If I re­mem­ber cor­rect­ly, the let­ter en­ded in an exp­li­cit qu­es­ti­on, to which I ex­pec­ted to get an ans­wer. I do not re­mem­ber how pre­ci­se­ly I for­mu­la­ted that qu­es­ti­on, but in plain lan­gu­a­ge I me­ant to ask: “Would you like to be my girlf­riend?”