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...
Music & the Spoken Word Library
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...
We Are All Stewards – March 28, 1999
As a service project, a college student undertook to raise a puppy for a guide dog organization. Her job was to feed, exercise, socialize, and...
Seeing in a New Way – March 21, 1999
Wouldn’t it be marvelous if we could see into another person’s heart and know exactly how he feels? Instead of grappling with words and language...
All Things Denote There Is a God – March 14, 1999
A traveler, walking along a forest path, comes across an intricately woven tapestry lying on the ground. After much effort, the traveler determines how the...
The Road Taken – March 07, 1999
Choosing the right road at the beginning of a journey will more likely ensure reaching the right destination. A man boarded a bus with the...
Moments of Integrity – February 28, 1999
Sometimes, in order to get along with those around us, we find ourselves in situations where we need to compromise. And yet, there are also...