When we elevate romance in our celebrations of Saint Valentine’s Day, we are doing more than supporting the manufacture of all things kitsch.

Human beings are not primarily burdens; they are burden-lifters. They are not the cancer on the surface of our planet; they are its cure.

We cannot sanctify ourselves in our own strength any more than we can save ourselves in our own strength. Unfortunately, it is startlingly easy to build an unstable, lawless shack on this solid, theological foundation.

Very often, the hardships that genetic testing promises to eradicate are the very trials God wants to use to make us stronger.