Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships—our relationship with God, ourselves, others, and the world around us. These thoughts deepened a couple of Sundays ago when…

Yearning may seem like an odd word to use in casual conversation with someone. "I yearn to go on vacation," or "I yearn for a pumpkin spice latte." We don't normally use "yearn" in our day-to-day conversations. It sounds more like…