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May God bless you and keep you as you seek to honor and glorify Him this week.

• Little Leaguer consoles pitches who hit him with a pitch – I don’t know the outcome of the game, but for this story alone, both teams won. Kudos to the kid who consoled his opponent, and to the kid who cared deeply about whether he had hurt another player. What an amazing display of sportsmanship!

• After Roe, Choose Compassion over Culture War – I appreciated this author’s respond to the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade and the reminder of how we should respond. People’s lives are rarely (if ever) enhanced because someone gloated, but many lives have been changed by showing compassion and grace.

• Triage in the Trenches: When Do Second-Tier Issues Divide? – Although the author appears to target this topic towards church leaders, I think the framework he presents is helpful for any Christian in considering how to approach various issues that may compromise church unity.

• The legacy of Christian caregiving – “The “care of strangers” is an extraordinary legacy of the Christian tradition. Caring for those who are ill is foundational to an acknowledgement of every individual being made in the image of God, an expression of Christian hospitality, and an extension of neighbor love. These are virtues both deep and wide in Christianity.”

• Why Did My Life Have to Be Hard? – “In other words, what God, in the course of his ordinary providence, ordains creation’s structures and processes to bring us, is not only outside our control but also beyond our finding out. Yet nothing can be added to what God does, nor anything taken away from it.”

Yesterday’s post – A Back to School Prayer: Friendships & Our Kids