Music & the Spoken Word Library

Holy and Whole

June 6, 1999

Sometimes the words we use to describe the good and beautiful things of life make them seem too difficult to achieve.  But when we examine...

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...

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 9, 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 2, 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...