Where the Heart Is – May 30, 1999
A teacher felt compassion for a young boy in her class whose father had been out of work for some months. The family had moved...
Music & the Spoken Word Library
Silver Linings – May 23, 1999
A father of five children, who lost his job a year ago, had to survive on part-time work while looking for a steady job. He...
The Gift of a Child – May 16, 1999
The birth of a child brings joyful noise into a home. And then, a score of years later, the silence after his departure is filled...
An Artist’s Eye – May 09, 1999
A newborn baby laid in its mother’s arms is a bundle of potentialities. For one so small, knowing little and recognizing even less, it will...
Voices – May 02, 1999
In the days when people depended upon sheep for food and clothing, village shepherds often gathered their flocks into a single sheepfold at night. Once...
Giving All That We Can – April 25, 1999
In our daily opportunities to give help to others, do we measure our efforts in terms of their immediate results or by whether we did...
Home – April 18, 1999
Perhaps the most enduring and important theme in all the world’s great literature is the search for home. From the great epic poems of antiquity...
A Song to Lean On – April 11, 1999
It was Thomas Carlyle who penned the words: “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”1 One important duty of angels is to...
A Newness of Life – April 04, 1999
Every spring we celebrate a newness of life. We rejoice over blossoms that have kept their promise; we cheer for saplings that have survived winter’s...