The Cup We Drink with Jesus: our Suffering and our Salvation

Posted on April 10, 2017

Throughout this Lent, I have been meditating on the call to drink the cup with the Lord. "Unless you drink this cup, you have no part in me."

The Last Supper, Pascal Dagnan Bouveret

What is the cup we are drinking? Well, certainly in the Garden when Jesus asks that the cup be passed by, he is referring to the suffering he must endure. The cup of Jesus we are to drink involves suffering. We are to embrace the suffering that Jesus calls us into as his own people, his family. We have no part in him if we do not drink it. In fact, Romans 8:17 says that we are "fellow heirs with Christ provided we suffer with him..."

To Have or Not to Have? The Dialogue with God About Building Your Family

Posted on November 26, 2016

In every marriage of childbearing age, this question will inevitably surface time and again: Do we have another child or not? And in some ways, "To have or not to have," is not so far from the original phrase, "To be or not to be?" We are considering something of such magnitude--do we bring a new life into the world that would not otherwise be? And close on it, follow feelings about our own capacity to be as we bring more life into the world!