Steady
Slow but steady wins the race. Aesop William Williams was steady — a man with constancy of resolve and conduct. Even before he signed the Declaration of Independence representing the Connecticut delegation, he had devoted himself to a life of public service. Denise Kiernan, in the book Signing Their Lives Away, describes a man who […]
Wait Here and Watch
After all the disciples had declared they were loyal to the death, Jesus took his inner circle of Peter, James, and John to a more secluded area of the Mount of Olives called Gethsemane and told them he was “very sorrowful.” The word used here is περιλυπός (peri-lup-os). “Peri” is something that surrounds or encompasses another […]