Have you ever noticed how a child comes to a parent without fear? A child doesn’t rehearse the request. They don’t wonder, “Will I be rejected?” They simply ask because they trust the heart of the one they’re asking. That kind of trust is built on a relationship. It’s built on knowing that the parent wants what is good. That is the picture Lord Jesus gives us when He says, “Which of you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?” (Matthew 7:9-10). Our Lord p

12 July 2014, at the wedding of Arthur and Karine at St. George Armenian Church in Hartford, Connecticut. In 2014, I came to America for the first time. I traveled from Paris, where I was serving as locum tenens of the Armenian Diocese of France, to attend the wedding of my friends Arthur and Karine Petrosyan. The moment I arrived in New York City, something moved deeply within me. It is hard to explain, but I did not feel like I was in a foreign place. I felt a deep peace, a

At the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, touching the stone from which Christ ascended, my heart whispers: “Maranatha; Come, Lord Jesus”, awaiting the One who ascended and will come again. On behalf of all believers, who raise their eyes to the skies, who try to reach out to Heavens, the prophet exclaims, “O that you would tear open the heavens and come down.” (Isaiah 64:1). Lord, if you broke that thickness which seems to separate us from You, then we can, at last, find the true