Respect – August 19, 2007
We’re all more alike than we are different. We want happiness and health, well-being for our loved ones, contentment, and a sense of security in...
Music & the Spoken Word Library
To Quietly Serve – August 12, 2007
In her endearing novel Pride and Prejudice, beloved author Jane Austen writes of a fictional clergyman, “Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man,”...
Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee – August 05, 2007
With so much to worry about these days, it’s easy to feel distressed. In addition to our personal difficulties and disappointments, we read the headlines...
Wisdom – July 29, 2007
Ancient proverbs remind us that “wisdom is better than rubies” (Proverbs 8:11) and that “wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom” (Proverbs 4:7). Wisdom...
Not Done Yet – July 22, 2007
All through life, we work toward goals, and when we achieve them, we often discover that we’re not done yet. The progress we’ve made helps...
Things that I Prize – July 15, 2007
Mention a song by George and Ira Gershwin, and folks start humming and tapping their toes. These two talented brothers left a singular imprint on...
The Fruits of Selfless Sowing – July 08, 2007
So much of who we are and what we have are gifts from those who have gone before us. Our forebears planted seeds that bear...
The America We Call Home – July 01, 2007
In 1893 Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor from Massachusetts, visited the Colorado Rockies. Her stay included an expedition, in a prairie wagon, to the...
Joy in the Garden – June 26, 2007
A popular children’s story tells of a little girl named Mary who loses her parents to an epidemic illness. Orphaned and lonely, she is sent...