Cheerfulness Breaks In – Sunday, February 16, 1997
In his famous biography of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell quotes from a conversation between Johnson and a man named Oliver Edwards. Edwards makes the following...
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Making Memories in Time – Sunday, February 09, 1997
Among the resources we each possess; our time is the most precious and perishable. Each day ticking clocks and changing calendars, growing children and aging...
Hand in Hand – Sunday, February 02, 1997
The tight grip of every newborn’s hand is a tangible reminder of our need for each other. Physicians may call this the “grasp reflect,” but...
Wet Paint – Sunday, January 26, 1997
No matter who we are or where we come from, we all react to certain warning signs the same way. We all know to pull...
Beauty – Sunday, January 19, 1997
How do we measure beauty? What is its essence, its substance, its reality? From the beginning of time, people have looked at landscapes and paintings...
To Trust and Be Trusted – Sunday, January 12, 1997
Were it not for trust, our society simply would not work. For, when we proceed from an assumption of mistrust, we become paralyzed by our...
Peace in the New Year – Sunday, January 05, 1997
What is the fascination we have with the coming of each new year? Is it not that we hope things will turn out better? There...
Reflecting on the New Year – Sunday, January 01, 1995
In Roman mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings, the deity responsible for the new year. As custodian of the universe, he holds sacred the...
Easter The Promise of Tomorrow – Sunday, March 30, 1986
Each spring the gray soil is turned over by green shoots of new life springing from what once seemed lifeless and dead. It is the...